Drug delivery applications of chitin and chitosan: a review

R Parhi - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2020 - Springer
Polymers are used in drug delivery devices for drug encapsulation and release. Natural
polymers often have advantages such as biocompatibility, biodegradability and biologically …

Skin cancer and new treatment perspectives: A review

MCF Simoes, JJS Sousa, AACC Pais - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Skin cancers are by far the most common malignancy of humans, particularly in the white
population. The growing incidence of cutaneous malignancies has heralded the need for …

Nanoparticles for topical drug delivery: Potential for skin cancer treatment

V Krishnan, S Mitragotri - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles offer new opportunities for the treatment of skin diseases. The barrier function
of the skin poses a significant challenge for nanoparticles to permeate into the tissue …

Transfersomes as versatile and flexible nano-vesicular carriers in skin cancer therapy: The state of the art

S Rai, V Pandey, G Rai - Nano reviews & experiments, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The skin acts as a barrier and prevents transcutaneous delivery of therapeutic
agents. Transfersomes are novel vesicular systems that are several times more elastic than …

Chitosan nanoparticles-based cancer drug delivery: application and challenges

B Sachdeva, P Sachdeva, A Negi, S Ghosh, S Han… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer consisting of N-acetylglucosamine units and
is primarily derived from the shells of marine crustaceans and the cell walls of organisms …

Crossing biological barriers with nanogels to improve drug delivery performance

JC Cuggino, ERO Blanco, LM Gugliotta… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
The current limitations in the use of nanocarriers to treat constantly evolving diseases call for
the design of novel and smarter drug delivery systems (DDS). Nanogels (NGs) are three …

Smart stimuli-responsive polysaccharide nanohydrogels for drug delivery: a review

F Damiri, A Fatimi, ACP Santos, RS Varma… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Polysaccharides have found extensive utilization as biomaterials in drug delivery systems
owing to their remarkable biocompatibility, simple functionalization, and inherent biological …

Polymeric nanoparticles as tunable nanocarriers for targeted delivery of drugs to skin tissues for treatment of topical skin diseases

EA Madawi, AR Al Jayoush, M Rawas-Qalaji, HE Thu… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The topical route is the most appropriate route for the targeted delivery of drugs to skin
tissues for the treatment of local skin diseases; however, the stratum corneum (SC), the …

Polymer-based smart drug delivery systems for skin application and demonstration of stimuli-responsiveness

L Van Gheluwe, I Chourpa, C Gaigne, E Munnier - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Progress in recent years in the field of stimuli-responsive polymers, whose properties
change depending on the intensity of a signal, permitted an increase in smart drug delivery …

Development of transethosomes formulation for dermal fisetin delivery: Box–Behnken design, optimization, in vitro skin penetration, vesicles–skin interaction and …

T Moolakkadath, M Aqil, A Ahad, SS Imam… - Artificial cells …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The present study was conducted for the optimization of transethosomes formulation for
dermal fisetin delivery. The optimization of the formulation was carried out using “Box …