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Similar to biomedical applications, chitinous polysaccharides are also interesting materials for the pharmaceutical industry, due to its antimicrobial, antitumor, antioxidant, anticholesterol and hemostatic effect, and wound healing [250]. Chitin extracted from R. oryzae was shown to have anti‐hepatotoxic effect, preventing the liver damage against paracetamol and contributes to the increasing of body's defense system [240]. A. niger CGC was shown to prevent the early development of atherosclerosis in in vivo studies [251]. In pharma applications, these biomaterials can be used as carriers of encapsulated drugs for drug delivery devices, vaccine adjuvants, or an excipient powder that can be used as binder, disintegrator, and/or a lubricant agent [234,235,252].