Synthesis and Evaluation of Herbal Chitosan from Ganoderma Lucidum Spore Powder for Biomedical Applications

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 14608 - 12
• Main Authors: Zhu, Li-Fang, Yao, Zhi-Cheng, Ahmad, Zeeshan, Li, Jing-Song, Chang, Ming-Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.10.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 13/31; 14/34; 14/63; 639/166/985; 639/301/54/990; Biocompatibility; Biomaterials; Biopolymers; Chitosan; Chitosan Preparation; Crustaceans; Deacetylation; Degradation Velocity; E coli; Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope; Escherichia coli; Fourier analysis; Fourier transforms; Ganoderic Acid; Herbal Sources; Humanities and Social Sciences; Infrared spectroscopy; multidisciplinary; Mushrooms; Powder; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Staphylococcus aureus; Ultrasound; X-ray diffraction; Ganoderic Acid; Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope; Chitosan Preparation; Degradation Velocity; Herbal Sources

Chitosan is an extremely valuable biopolymer and is usually obtained as a byproduct from the shells of crustaceans. In the current work, chitosan is obtained from an herbal source ( Ganoderma lucidum spore powder (GLSP)) for the first time. To show this, both standard (thermochemical deacetylation,...