He speculates that people normally mount an immune attack against an allergen or parasite in response to chitin, among other signals. This kind of inflammation is important in repelling the foreign ...

as well as increased production of the chitin-destroying enzyme made by cells lining the lung airways. This and other results support their hypothesis, still under study, that chitin causes ...

Chitin of insects and crustaceans has been found ... which selectively marked dead cells; it was then possible to count the death toll cytometrically. Following in-depth studies on biochemical ...

Fernandez and his colleagues maintain that chitin is likely to be part of any ... It's the primary component of fish scales and fungal cell walls, for example, as well as the exoskeletons of ...

Chitinous Martian: two objects made using a chitin-based material that could be made on Mars. (Courtesy: Javier G Fernandez/CC-BY) Early settlers on Mars could build their homes using a material that ...