Chitosan: A review on properties, biological activities and recent progress in biomedical applications

A Harugade, AP Sherje, A Pethe - Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Chitosan is a naturally occurring amino polysaccharide obtained by deacetylation of chitin
and is second most commonly used natural polymer. Its non-toxic, biocompatibility and …

Advances in nanomaterial-based targeted drug delivery systems

X Cheng, Q **e, Y Sun - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems (NBDDS) are widely used to improve the safety
and therapeutic efficacy of encapsulated drugs due to their unique physicochemical and …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in chitosan-based nanoparticles for drug delivery

V Mikušová, P Mikuš - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nanoparticles (NPs) have an outstanding position in pharmaceutical, biological, and
medical disciplines. Polymeric NPs based on chitosan (CS) can act as excellent drug …

Coating materials to increase the stability of liposomes

D Pasarin, AI Ghizdareanu, CE Enascuta, CB Matei… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Liposomes carry various compounds with applications in pharmaceutical, food, and
cosmetic fields, and the administration route is especially parenteral, oral, or transdermal …

Chitosan derivatives as carriers for drug delivery and biomedical applications

S Manna, A Seth, P Gupta, G Nandi… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past few decades, chitosan (CS) has gained the attention of researchers
investigating newer biomaterial-based carriers for drugs in pharmaceutical and biomedical …

Mucoadhesive carriers for oral drug delivery

R Kumar, T Islam, M Nurunnabi - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the various dosage forms, oral medicine has extensive benefits including ease of
administration and patients' compliance, over injectable, suppositories, ocular and nasal …

Chitosan-based nanodelivery systems for cancer therapy: Recent advances

A Narmani, SM Jafari - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, cancer is one of the most prominent issues related to human health since it
causes more than one-tenth of death cases throughout the world. On the other hand, routine …

Recent advances of emerging green chitosan-based biomaterials with potential biomedical applications: A review

A Khan, KA Alamry - Carbohydrate Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan is the most abundant natural biopolymer, after cellulose. It is mainly derived from
the fungi, shrimp's shells, and exoskeleton of crustaceans, through the deacetylation of …

Chitin and chitosan on the nanoscale

T **, T Liu, E Lam, A Moores - Nanoscale Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In a matter of decades, nanomaterials from biomass, exemplified by nanocellulose, have
rapidly transitioned from once being a subject of curiosity to an area of fervent research and …