ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS, cilt.56, sa.10, ss.1467-1480, 2004 (SCI-Expanded)
(C)hitosan is a partially deacetylated polymer obtained from the alkaline deacetylation of chitin which is a glucose-based unbranched polysaccharide widely distributed in nature as the principal component of exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects as well as of cell walls of some bacteria and fungi.