Gene therapy, as a promising therapeutics to treat genetic or acquired diseases, has
achieved exciting development in the past two decades. Appropriate gene vectors can be …

Among non-viral vectors, chitosan and chitosan derivatives have been developed in vitro
and in vivo for DNA and siRNA delivery systems because of their cationic charge …

Recently, much attention has been paid to chitosan as a potential polysaccharide resource.
Although several efforts have been reported to prepare functional derivatives of chitosan by …

Completely revised and expanded to reflect the latest advancements in the field,
Polysaccharides: Structural Diversity and Functional Versatility, Second Edition outlines …

Chitosan nanoparticles have gained more attention as drug delivery carriers because of
their better stability, low toxicity, simple and mild preparation method, and providing versatile …