Livestock Studies
2010, Vol 50, Num, 1 (Pages: 041-052)
The use of chitosan oligosaccharide in animal nutrition II- Antioxidative, antimicrobial and the other effects
Onur KESER 1 ,Tanay BİLAL 1
1 İstanbul Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Hayvan Besleme ve Beslenme Hastalıkları ABD, Avcılar/İSTANBUL
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Chitosan is produced by deacetylation of chitin, an abundant natural polymer in exoskeletons of
crustaceans and insects and in the cell wall of some fungi. Although it has many biological activities, its
oligosaccharide form with higher soluble and lower molecular weight known as chitosan oligosaccharide was
developed. Due to the recent studies have focused on natural saccharidic products that may be alternative to
antibiotics, it made COS attracting. Besides its beneficial effects on immunity and performance, it was
demonstrated that COS had antimicrobial, antioxidative, anticancer, antidiabetic, lipid and cholesterol lowering
effects by recent studies. In the present paper, antioxidative, antimicrobial and other effects of COS in animals
were investigated.
Keywords :
Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, Chitosan oligosaccharide