The Study on Microbe-fibers

摘要

Microbe-fibers are popular in medicine and food science. The cell walls of microbe-fibers were mainly composed of chitin and #beta#-1,3-D-glucan. The two substances have been shown to be very active in a number of applications, such as wound healing. They show the protective effects resulting from the activation of Langerhans cells, which are macrophages resident in the skin, activated macrophages produce factors which aid the healing of wounds, such as epidermal growth factor and angiogenesis factor. These cascading effects are beneficial to wound healing.