Contributions of exopolysaccharides from lactic acid bacteria as biotechnological tools in food, pharmaceutical, and medical applications

GM Daba, MO Elnahas, WA Elkhateeb - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are important bioproducts produced by some genera of lactic
acid bacteria. EPS are famous for their shelf-life improving properties, techno-functional …

Review of polysaccharide particle-based functional drug delivery

TG Barclay, CM Day, N Petrovsky, S Garg - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
This review investigates the significant role polysaccharide particles play in functional drug
delivery. The importance of these systems is due to the wide variety of polysaccharides and …

Effect of zeta potential on the properties of nano-drug delivery systems-a review (Part 2)

S Honary, F Zahir - Tropical journal of pharmaceutical research, 2013 - ajol.info
The zeta potential (ZP) of colloidal systems and nano-medicines, as well as their particle
size exert a major effect on the various properties of nano-drug delivery systems. Not only …

Biodegradable polymer nanogels for drug/nucleic acid delivery

Y Li, D Maciel, J Rodrigues, X Shi, H Tomás - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Despite the extensive research on therapeutic delivery, many problems still exist on how to
develop a proper platform (a carrier) that can deliver drugs/nucleic acids to specific sites of …

Hydrogels for protein delivery

T Vermonden, R Censi, WE Hennink - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Importantly, with the advent of hybridoma and recombinant DNA technologies, the limitations
associated with the extraction and purification of pharmaceutical proteins from animal …

Present and future medical applications of microbial exopolysaccharides

M Moscovici - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbial exopolysaccharides (EPS) have found outstanding medical applications since the
mid-20th century, with the first clinical trials on dextran solutions as plasma expanders. Other …

Nanogels as drug-delivery systems: A comprehensive overview

M Suhail, JM Rosenholm, MU Minhas… - Therapeutic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Nanogels have attracted considerable attention as nanoscopic drug carriers, particularly for
site-specific or time-controlled delivery of bioactive mediators. A high diversity of polymer …

Photothermally controlled gene delivery by reduced graphene oxide–polyethylenimine nanocomposite

H Kim, WJ Kim - Small, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Externally stimuli‐triggered spatially and temporally controlled gene delivery can play a
pivotal role in achieving targeted gene delivery with maximized therapeutic efficacy. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Nanogels as potential nanomedicine carrier for treatment of cancer: A mini review of the state of the art

G Soni, KS Yadav - Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanogels are being explored as drug delivery agents for targeting cancer due to their easy
tailoring properties and ability to efficiently encapsulate therapeutics of diverse nature …

Carbohydrate-based amphiphilic nano delivery systems for cancer therapy

K Liu, X Jiang, P Hunziker - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoparticles (NPs) are novel drug delivery systems that have been attracting more and
more attention in recent years, and have been used for the treatment of cancer, infection …