medical and pharmaceutical applications of chitin
The medical and pharmaceutical applications of chitin refer to the various uses of a natural compound called chitin in the field of medicine and drug development. Chitin can be utilized to develop medical devices, wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and scaffolds for tissue engineering, among other applications.
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