Targeted delivery of drug molecules to diseased sites is a great challenge in pharmaceutical
and biomedical sciences. Fabrication of drug delivery systems (DDS) to target and/or …

In the chitin bibliography, a major reference is the book written by Richards in 1951
“primarily for entomologists and other invertebrate zoologists” but also, in the author's hope …

This review presents a critical analysis of covalently and ionically crosslinked chitosan
hydrogels and related networks for medical or pharmaceutical applications. The structural …

This article critically reviews the recent developments in the structural modifications of
chitosan and its nano-structured variants produced via different techniques and their …

The route of a specific drug carrier system is always a significant platform of development
that combines the principles of biomedical technology, nanotechnology, and pharmaceutical …

Chitin is well characterized in terms of analytical chemistry, is purified from accompanying
compounds, and derivatized in a variety of fashions. Its biochemical significance when …

Eiselt P., Yeh J., Latvala RK, Shea LD, and Mooney DJ: Porous carriers for biomedical
applications based on alginate hydrogels, Biomaterials 21: 1921—1927, 2000. Shapiro L …

A new delivery system based on drug cyclodextrin (Cd) complexation and loading into
nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) has been developed to improve ketoprofen therapeutic …

Chitosan has demonstrated its potentials as a gene carrier and a membrane perturbant for
subsequent drug delivery to cells. However, there is currently a lack of experimental …

Chitosan is a natural polymer that has many physicochemical (polycationic, reactive OH and
NH2 groups) and biological (bioactive, biocompatible, biodegradable) properties. These …