Chitosan derivatives and their application in biomedicine

W Wang, Q Meng, Q Li, J Liu, M Zhou, Z Jin… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a product of the deacetylation of chitin, which is widely found in nature. Chitosan
is insoluble in water and most organic solvents, which seriously limits both its application …

Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery, imaging, and theragnosis

SS Das, P Bharadwaj, M Bilal, M Barani, A Rahdar… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, polymeric nanocarriers have been recognized as promising tools
and have gained attention from researchers for their potential to efficiently deliver bioactive …

Current and emerging applications of saccharide-modified chitosan: a critical review

HKS Panahi, M Dehhaghi, H Amiri, GJ Guillemin… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chitin, as the main component of the exoskeleton of Arthropoda, is a highly available natural
polymer that can be processed into various value-added products. Its most important …

Polycation architecture and assembly direct successful gene delivery: micelleplexes outperform polyplexes via optimal DNA packaging

Z Tan, Y Jiang, W Zhang, L Karls… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cellular delivery of biomacromolecules is vital to medical research and therapeutic
development. Cationic polymers are promising and affordable candidate vehicles for these …

Recent advances in micro-and nano-drug delivery systems based on natural and synthetic biomaterials

M Harun-Or-Rashid, MN Aktar, MS Hossain, N Sarkar… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polymeric drug delivery technology, which allows for medicinal ingredients to enter a cell
more easily, has advanced considerably in recent decades. Innovative medication delivery …

Self-preparation system using glucose oxidase-inspired nitroreductase amplification for cascade-responsive drug release and multidrug resistance reversion

F Yu, X Shang, Y Zhu, H Lou, Y Liu, T Meng, Y Hong… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Early antitumor therapy is an important determinant of survival in patients with cancer.
Utilization of specific pathological states, such as hypoxia, greatly promotes the …

Emerging strategies in stimuli-responsive nanocarriers as the drug delivery system for enhanced cancer therapy

K Saravanakumar, X Hu, DM Ali… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
The conventional Drug Delivery System (DDS) has limitations such as leakage of the drug,
toxicity to normal cells and loss of drug efficiency, while the stimuli-responsive DDS is non …

A nanosized codelivery system based on intracellular stimuli-triggered dual-drug release for multilevel chemotherapy amplification in drug-resistant breast cancer

Y Guo, S Liu, F Luo, D Tang, T Yang, X Yang, Y Xie - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lacking nano-systems for precisely codelivering the chemotherapeutics paclitaxel (PTX)
and the natural P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitor, quercetin (QU), into cancer cells and …

Evaluation of chitosan derivatives modified mesoporous silica nanoparticles as delivery carrier

Q Li, W Wang, G Hu, X Cui, D Sun, Z Jin, K Zhao - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a non-toxic biological material, but chitosan is insoluble in water, which hinders
the development and utilization of chitosan. Chitosan derivatives N-2-Hydroxypropyl …

Nanodrug delivery: Strategies to circumvent nanoparticle trafficking by Kupffer cells in the liver

D Ezhilarasan, KS Harini - Journal of Drug Delivery Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Kupffer cells (KCs) are resident macrophages of the liver purposefully attached to sinusoidal
endothelial cells in the sinusoidal domain of the liver to offer a first line of innate immunity …