Natural product-based nanoformulations for cancer therapy: Opportunities and challenges

D Kashyap, HS Tuli, MB Yerer, A Sharma, K Sak… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Application of natural product-based nanoformulations for the treatment of different human
diseases, such as cancer, is an emerging field. The conventional cancer therapeutic …

Chitosan as biomaterial in drug delivery and tissue engineering

SM Ahsan, M Thomas, KK Reddy… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chitin is one of the most abundant polysaccharide found on earth. The deacetylated form of
chitin viz. chitosan has been reported for its various important pharmacological properties …

Review of polysaccharide particle-based functional drug delivery

TG Barclay, CM Day, N Petrovsky, S Garg - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
This review investigates the significant role polysaccharide particles play in functional drug
delivery. The importance of these systems is due to the wide variety of polysaccharides and …

Chitosan‐based nanoscale systems for doxorubicin delivery: Exploring biomedical application in cancer therapy

M Ashrafizadeh, K Hushmandi… - Bioengineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Green chemistry has been a growing multidisciplinary field in recent years showing great
promise in biomedical applications, especially for cancer therapy. Chitosan (CS) is an …

Marine polysaccharides from algae with potential biomedical applications

MF de Jesus Raposo, AMB De Morais… - Marine drugs, 2015 - mdpi.com
There is a current tendency towards bioactive natural products with applications in various
industries, such as pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetics and food. This has put some …

Progress in brain targeting drug delivery system by nasal route

AR Khan, M Liu, MW Khan, G Zhai - Journal of Controlled Release, 2017 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) restricts the transport of potential therapeutic moieties to the
brain. Direct targeting the brain via olfactory and trigeminal neural pathways by passing the …

Stimulus-responsive sequential release systems for drug and gene delivery

S Ahmadi, N Rabiee, M Bagherzadeh, F Elmi, Y Fatahi… - Nano today, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, a range of studies have been conducted with the aim to design and
characterize delivery systems that are able to release multiple therapeutic agents in …

Biomedical application of chitosan-based nanoscale delivery systems: Potential usefulness in siRNA delivery for cancer therapy

M Ashrafizadeh, M Delfi, F Hashemi, A Zabolian… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is an emerging and promising strategy in cancer therapy where small
interfering RNA (siRNA) system has been deployed for down-regulation of targeted gene …

Competitive biological activities of chitosan and its derivatives: Antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, and anti‐inflammatory activities

S Kim - International journal of polymer science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Chitosan is obtained from alkaline deacetylation of chitin, and acetamide groups are
transformed into primary amino groups during the deacetylation. The diverse biological …

Polysaccharide-based nanoparticles for theranostic nanomedicine

M Swierczewska, HS Han, K Kim, JH Park… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are natural biological molecules that have numerous advantages for
theranostics, the integrated approach of therapeutics and diagnostics. Their derivable …