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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2020

Dipteran Carboxymethyl Chitosan as an Inexhaustible Derivative with a Potential Antiproliferative Activity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells.

Rana M Abdel Rahman, Hedayat Abdel Ghaffar, Afrah F Alkhuriji, Mahmoud I Khalil, Noha Amaly, Attalla F El-Kott, Ahmed S Sultan

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Rana M Abdel RahmanZoology Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt.
Hedayat Abdel GhaffarZoology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Afrah F AlkhurijiDepartment of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mahmoud I KhalilDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7629-4357
Noha AmalyPolymeric Materials Research Department, Advanced Technology and New Materials Research Institute (ATNMRI), City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA-City), Alexandria, Egypt.
Attalla F El-KottZoology Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt.
Ahmed S SultanBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6568-1757

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional folk therapies indicate that insects have diverse medicinal potentials. However, the therapeutic application of insect chitosan and its derivatives has not been explored. To investigate the application of chitosan and its derivatives, the carboxymethyl derivative of chitosan (CM-Ch) was extracted from two dipteran larvae species,

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PMCPMC7539079

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