title: Chitosan -- a promising biomaterial in veterinary medicine.
abstract: Biomaterials originate from natural substances and are widely used in medicine. Although they have to satisfy many conditions to be useful for treatment, more and more research is carried out with new types of biomaterials that can help replace various tissues such as tendons and bones. Chitosan is a very promising material, revealing unique features, which makes it useful for veterinary medicine -- antimicrobial activity, biocompatibility, biodegradability. It is also known as good scaffold material, especially when combined with other polymers. This article describes chitosan as a biomaterial and tissue engineering scaffold with possible applications in veterinary medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Large Animal Medicine with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 100, 02-797 Warsaw, Poland. vet.olgadrewnowska@gmail.com
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Drewnowska
authors.affiliation: Department of Large Animal Medicine with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 100, 02-797 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Turek
authors.affiliation: Department of Large Animal Medicine with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 100, 02-797 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carstanjen
authors.affiliation: Department of Large Animal Medicine with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 100, 02-797 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gajewski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D048271:Chitosan / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D048271:Chitosan