Mucin structure, aggregation, physiological functions and biomedical applications
By R. Bansil, Bradley S. Turner. 2006
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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Probiotics in Fish Nutrition—Long-Standing Household Remedy or Native Nutraceuticals? (2021, background): “Mucus is a gel-like layer that functions as a transit tissue and pathogen barrier [67,68].”
- Chitosan and Its Derivatives for Application in Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Systems (2018, background): “It is mainly composed of water (~90 to 98%), mucins (0.2–5% w / w ), salts (~0.5 to 1.0% w / w ), proteins (~0.5% w / v ), cells and cellular debris, DNA, bacteria and lipids [1–7].”
- Oral Drug Delivery with Polymeric Nanoparticles: The Gastrointestinal Mucus Barriers (2011, background): “There are also N-linked oligosaccharides (2–3%) located near the ends of mucin monomers [13], but O-linked oligosaccharides comprise 40–80% of the mucin dry weight [14].”
- Study on the mucoadhesion mechanism of pectin by atomic force microscopy and mucin-particle method (2010, background): “This agreed with Bansil and Turner (2006) in which the conformation of commercial porcine gastric mucin in dilute solution examined by viscosity and circular dichroism measurements revealed similar changes, as a function of pH, which were attributed to the unfolding of hydrophobic domains at low pH.”
- Zein as a source of functional colloidal nano- and microstructures (2014, background): “Bioadhesive polymers are known to form entanglements and physical bonds with mucin, the main component of mucosa which covers the gastrointestinal lining [88,89].”
- Food oral processing - a review. (2009, neutral): “The protein core makes up the remaining 20% of the molecular mass and is arranged into distinct regions (Bansil & Turner, 2006).”