Table 6 Chitin-based commercial products and their applications
From: Seafood waste: a source for preparation of commercially employable chitin/chitosan materials
S. no | Product | Manufacture | Application | Patent/references |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BST-Gel® | Piramal Healthcare Canada Inc | Chronic wound healing, bone filling, cartilage repair, invertebral disc restoration | US 8747899, Chaput and Chenite (2014) |
2 | ChitoFlex® PRO | Tricol biomedical Inc | Wound dressing and controlling bleeding | US 8668924 B2, McCarthy et al. (2014) |
3 | Hemcon ChitoGauze® PRO | Tricol Biomedical Inc | Wound dressing | US 9205170 B2, Lucchesi and Xie (2015) |
4 | Talymed® | Marine polymer technologies | Wound dressing material | US 9139664 B2, Finkielsztein and Vournakis (2015) |
5 | Protasanâ„¢ | NovaMatrix | Pharmaceutical application | WO 2015081304 A1, Francis et al. (2015) |
6 | Reaxon® | Medovent | Nerve regeneration | Medovent (2018) |
7 | Slim MED™ | Kitozyme | Treatment of excess weight | US 20040126444 A1, D’huart and Dallas (2004) |
8 | Liposan Ultra® | Primex | Weight loss | US 6130321, Johnson and Nichols (2000) |
9 | ChitoDot® | Tricol biomedical Inc | Wound dressing and controlling bleeding | US 8269058 B2, McCarthy et al. (2012) |