Recently, much attention has been paid to chitosan as a potential polysaccharide resource.
Although several efforts have been reported to prepare functional derivatives of chitosan by …

Despite the enormous development of instruments for analyzing a wide variety of
compounds, applied in different fields such as health, environment or quality control, the …

This study provided a facile, one-step hydrothermal method to synthesize stable Ag colloid
in aqueous solution by utilizing chitosan as both reductant and stabilizer. The formation of …

Skin repair is an important field of the tissue engineering, especially in the case of extended
third-degree burns, where the current treatments are still insufficient in promoting satisfying …

Alternatives to efficient viral vectors in gene therapy are desired because of their poor safety
profiles. Chitosan is a promising non-viral nucleotide delivery vector because of its …

We have previously reported the ability of chitosan nanocapsules to enhance and prolong
the oral absorption of peptides. In the present work, our goal was to design a new type of …

Chitin, chitosan, and their derivatives have been identified as versatile biopolymers for a
broad range of agriculture and food applications. Up to now, several methods have been …

Nanoparticles intended for use in the transmucosal delivery of macromolecules were
prepared by the ionic gelation of chitosan (CS) hydrochloride with pentasodium …

Chitosan is a complex linear amino co-polymer which, depending on a great variety of
parameters, exhibits a more or less amphiphilic structure. This makes this polysaccharide …

Physicochemical properties of four different homogeneous series of chitosans with degrees
of acetylation (DA) and weight-average degrees of polymerization (DPw) ranging from 0 to …