chitin

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In addition to the peritrophic matrix and exoskeleton, these findings confirm chitin is also present in the mosquito serosal cuticle.

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  1. noun A tough, protective, semitransparent substance, primarily a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, forming the principal component of arthropod exoskeletons and the cell walls of certain fungi.

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  • The feeler laid him gently in repose in the center of an immense, chitin-armored back. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • Ahead was nothing but thousands of miles of empty chitin-lands. —  EBSCOhost
  • He pulled at the carbonized chitin, looking for some object that would provide a clue. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • Using chitin, the main component of lobster shells, Jochen Weiss at the University of Hohenheim in Germany and Jose Maria Lagaron of the Agrochemistry and Food Technology Institute in Spain are just two of many materials scientists world wide who work with the electrospinning of this natural polymer.
  • They differed in their pH optimum, in specific activity, in the pattern of products formed from [3H] chitin, as well as in their relative lysozyme activity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. French chitine : New Latin chitōn, mollusk (from Greek khitōn, chiton; see chiton) + -ine2.
 

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