Hindawi Publishing Corporation BioMed Research International Volume 2014, Article ID 458287, 9 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/458287 Research Article Dried Fruit of the Luffa Sponge as a Source of Chitin for Applications as Skin Substitutes Ping-Lun Jiang,1 Mei-Yin Chien,2,3 Ming-Thau Sheu,4,5 Yi-You Huang,1 Meng-Hsun Chen,6 Ching-Hua Su,7 and Der-Zen Liu6,8 1 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan 2 School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan 3 Ko Da Pharmaceutical Co., Taoyuan 324, Taiwan 4 School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan 5 Clinical Research Center and Traditional Herbal Medicine Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei 110, Taiwan 6 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan 7 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan 8 Center for General Education, Hsuan Chuang University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Ching-Hua Su;
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[email protected] Received 8 February 2014; Accepted 5 March 2014; Published 9 April 2014 Academic Editor: Yoshihiko Hayashi Copyright © 2014 Ping-Lun Jiang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.