Search results for: keratin isolates

• The possibility of use keratin products in various branches of industry

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  • A. Panek
  • O. Pietrow-Tobiszewska

  - Year 2011

  Bird's feather, the main by-product of the poultry industry, are not enough utilized and negatively influencing the environment. They contain large amount of keratin, the protein with high cystine content. The aim of our work was to obtain hydrolysates and isolates of keratin, which can be used in various areas of food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical industry and as animal feed. Keratin can be hydrolyzed and extracted from feather after...

• Solubilization of keratins and functional properties of their isolates and hydrolysates

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  • I. Sinkiewicz
  • H. Staroszczyk
  • A. Sommer

  - JOURNAL OF FOOD BIOCHEMISTRY - Year 2018

  The keratinous wastes of the textile industry and poultry slaughterhouses may be used as sources of soluble keratins or hydrolysates. This review presents methods for processing raw keratin-based materials into bioproducts with functional and bioactive properties suitable for biomedical, cosmetic, food, and agricultural applications. Soluble keratin can be obtained by thermal treatment in some organic solvents, reduction, or oxidation...

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