A review on Chitosan's uses as biomaterial: Tissue engineering, drug delivery systems and cancer treatment

R de Sousa Victor, A Marcelo da Cunha Santos… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chitosan, derived from chitin, is a biopolymer consisting of arbitrarily distributed β-(1-4)-
linked D-glucosamine and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine that exhibits outstanding properties …

Prospects and challenges of anticancer agents' delivery via chitosan-based drug carriers to combat breast cancer: A review

G Wang, R Li, B Parseh, G Du - Carbohydrate polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) is considered as one the most prevalent cancers worldwide. Due to its
high resistance to chemotherapy and high probability of metastasis, BC is one of the leading …

Chitosan: A versatile bio-platform for breast cancer theranostics

VS Madamsetty, S Tavakol, S Moghassemi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is considered one of the utmost neoplastic diseases globally, with a high
death rate of patients. Over the last decades, many approaches have been studied to early …

Application of chitosan modified nanocarriers in breast cancer

SK Dubey, T Bhatt, M Agrawal, RN Saha… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
As per the WHO, every year around 2.1 million women are detected with breast cancer. It is
one of the most invasive cancer in women and second most among all, contributing around …

Polymeric and non-polymeric oxaliplatin nanomedicine for cancer therapy: A comprehensive review

M Pourmadadi, M Shaghaghi, R Arshad… - European Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
The importance of polymeric and non-polymeric Oxaliplatin (OXA) nanomedicine in cancer
therapy takes center stage in this article. OXA, a chemotherapy agent deployed in the …

Chitosan nanoparticles loading oxaliplatin as a mucoadhesive topical treatment of oral tumors: Iontophoresis further enhances drug delivery ex vivo

BN Matos, MN Pereira, MO Bravo… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tumors located in the oral mucosa are challenging to treat since surgery can lead to
aesthetic, speech, and salivation problems, radiotherapy alone is often ineffective, and …

Recent advances in engineered chitosan-based nanogels for biomedical applications

H Wang, J Qian, F Ding - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last few decades, chitosan-based nanostructured materials have attracted significant
attention and have been applied in different biomedical fields. Chitosan-based nanogels …

Applications of calixarenes in cancer chemotherapy: facts and perspectives

A Yousaf, SA Hamid, NM Bunnori… - … design, development and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Research on the therapeutic applications of calixarene derivatives is an emerging area of
interest. The anticancer activity of various functionalized calixarenes has been reported by …

Green synthesis of hydrolyzed starch–chitosan nano-composite as drug delivery system to gram negative bacteria

A Shehabeldine, M Hasanin - Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring …, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate the improvement of Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride
(CIP) activity by incorporation into green based nano-composite and control the antibiotic …

Plausible role of chitosan in drug and gene delivery against resistant breast cancer cells

T Nandgude, R Pagar - Carbohydrate Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the highest global spread of invasive cancer in women. While significant
progress has been made in breast cancer, diagnostic and therapeutic effective prevention …