Chitosan: a potential biopolymer in drug delivery and biomedical applications

N Desai, D Rana, S Salave, R Gupta, P Patel… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitosan, a biocompatible and biodegradable polysaccharide derived from chitin, has
surfaced as a material of promise for drug delivery and biomedical applications. Different …

Chitosan-based biomaterials for tissue regeneration

Y Kim, Z Zharkinbekov, K Raziyeva, L Tabyldiyeva… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a chitin-derived biopolymer that has shown great potential for tissue
regeneration and controlled drug delivery. It has numerous qualities that make it attractive …

Chitosan-based biomaterials: insights into chemistry, properties, devices, and their biomedical applications

S Petroni, I Tagliaro, C Antonini, M D'Arienzo, SF Orsini… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a marine-origin polysaccharide obtained from the deacetylation of chitin, the
main component of crustaceans' exoskeleton, and the second most abundant in nature …

Artificial scaffolds in cardiac tissue engineering

JA Roacho-Pérez, EN Garza-Treviño… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Current treatments
directed at heart repair have several disadvantages, such as a lack of donors for heart …

Chitosan-based composites: development and perspective in food preservation and biomedical applications

A Kumar, S Yadav, J Pramanik, BS Sivamaruthi… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitin, which may be the second-most common polymer after cellulose, is the raw material of
chitosan. Chitosan has been infused with various plant extracts and subsidiary polymers to …

Biomaterials‐based cell therapy for myocardial tissue regeneration

L Mu, R Dong, B Guo - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been the leading cause of death worldwide during
the past several decades. Cell loss is the main problem that results in cardiac dysfunction …

Localized, on-demand, sustained drug delivery from biopolymer-based materials

J Wu, S Shaidani, SK Theodossiou… - Expert opinion on …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Local drug delivery facilitiates higher concentrations of drug molecules at or
near the treatment site to enhance treatment efficiency and reduce drug toxicity and other …

Advanced drug delivery micro-and nanosystems for cardiovascular diseases

S Iravani, RS Varma - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Advanced drug delivery micro-and nanosystems have been widely explored due to their
appealing specificity/selectivity, biodegradability, biocompatibility, and low toxicity. They can …

Stimuli-responsive injectable chitosan-based hydrogels for controlled drug delivery systems

H Garshasbi, S Salehi, SM Naghib… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the last decade, injectable hydrogels have attracted a lot of attention due to their excellent
functional properties in the field of drug delivery for precise, non-invasive and focused tissue …

Recent advances in medical applications of chitosan-based biomaterials

DK Sharma - International Journal of Polymeric Materials and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Future and current tissue engineering applications as a therapeutic approach in
regenerative medicine seem promising. Chitosan has various characteristics, including …