Tumor‐targeting glycol chitosan nanoparticles for cancer heterogeneity

JH Ryu, HY Yoon, IC Sun, IC Kwon… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomedicine is extensively employed for cancer treatment owing to its unique advantages
over conventional drugs and imaging agents. This increased attention to nanomedicine …

Stimuli-responsive chitosan as an advantageous platform for efficient delivery of bioactive agents

P Sabourian, M Tavakolian, H Yazdani… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite a diverse range of active pharmaceutical agents currently at our disposal, high
morbidity rate diseases continue to pose a major health crisis globally. One of the important …

Glycogen-based pH and redox sensitive nanoparticles with ginsenoside Rh2 for effective treatment of ulcerative colitis

Y Xu, BW Zhu, X Li, YF Li, XM Ye, JN Hu - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to construct a pH and redox sensitive nanoparticle to effectively
deliver ginsenoside Rh 2 for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). Herein, glycogen was …

Multifunctional polymeric micellar nanomedicine in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer

N Raval, R Maheshwari, H Shukla, K Kalia… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polymeric micelles are a prevalent topic of research for the past decade, especially
concerning their fitting ability to deliver drug and diagnostic agents. This delivery system …

Thiol chitosan-wrapped gold nanoshells for near-infrared laser-induced photothermal destruction of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

P Manivasagan, F Khan, G Hoang, S Mondal… - Carbohydrate …, 2019 - Elsevier
Developing new antibacterial nanomaterials and novel therapeutic strategies for the
destruction of human pathogenic bacteria that cause infectious diseases is becoming more …

Anti-EGFR antibody conjugated thiol chitosan-layered gold nanoshells for dual-modal imaging-guided cancer combination therapy

P Manivasagan, SW Jun, G Hoang, S Mondal… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
Developing a novel multifunctional theranostic agent for cancer combination therapy has
attracted tremendous attention in recent years. In this report, we designed and developed a …

Glycol chitosan: A water-soluble polymer for cell imaging and drug delivery

F Lin, HR Jia, FG Wu - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Glycol chitosan (GC), a water-soluble chitosan derivative with hydrophilic ethylene glycol
branches, has both hydrophobic segments for the encapsulation of various drugs and …

Synthesis and characterization of α-lipoic acid grafted chitosan derivatives with antioxidant activity

W Tan, J Zhang, Y Mi, Q Li, Z Guo - Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Here, α-lipoic acid (LA) was grafted onto chitosan via EDC/NHS to improve the antioxidant
effect. Chitosan acetate was innovatively used as precursor replaced pristine chitosan to …

Recent developments in selenium-containing polymeric micelles: prospective stimuli, drug-release behaviors, and intrinsic anticancer activity

YS Birhan, HC Tsai - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Selenium is capable of forming a dynamic covalent bond with itself and other elements and
can undergo metathesis and regeneration reactions under optimum conditions. Its dynamic …

Biocompatible glycol chitosan microgels as effective drug carriers

M Sahiner, AS Yilmaz, RS Ayyala, N Sahiner - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
Glycol chitosan (GC) is a chitosan (CH) derivative with improved water solubility with
regards to CH which affords significant solubility advantages. In this study, microgels of GC …