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 …

Chitosan‐based nanoscale systems for doxorubicin delivery: Exploring biomedical application in cancer therapy

M Ashrafizadeh, K Hushmandi… - Bioengineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Green chemistry has been a growing multidisciplinary field in recent years showing great
promise in biomedical applications, especially for cancer therapy. Chitosan (CS) is an …

Adhesive hydrogels in osteoarthritis: From design to application

WL Duan, LN Zhang, R Bohara… - Military Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of degenerative joint disease which affects 7%
of the global population and more than 500 million people worldwide. One research frontier …

Polymeric nanofibers for drug delivery applications: a recent review

X Duan, H Chen, C Guo - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2022 - Springer
With the rapid development of biomaterials and biotechnologies, various functional
materials-based drug delivery systems (DDS) are developed to overcome the limitations of …

Nano-therapeutics: A revolution in infection control in post antibiotic era

S Zaidi, L Misba, AU Khan - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the arrival of antibiotics 70 years ago, meant a paradigm shift in overcoming infectious
diseases. For decades, drugs have been used to treat different infections. However, with …

Stable PEG-coated silver nanoparticles–A comprehensive toxicological profile

I Pinzaru, D Coricovac, C Dehelean, EA Moacă… - Food and Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study was purported to assess the toxicological profile of bare and polyethylene
glycol (PEG) coated spherical silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by means of in vitro (on human …

Burgeoning polymer nano blends for improved controlled drug release: a review

S Maghsoudi, B Taghavi Shahraki… - International Journal …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
With continual rapid developments in the biomedical field and understanding of the
important mechanisms and pharmacokinetics of biological molecules, controlled drug …

Polyphenols: A promising avenue in therapeutic solutions for wound care

I Guimarães, S Baptista-Silva, M Pintado, A L. Oliveira - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This manuscript seeks an extensive and comprehensive review of the
literature on the complexity of chronic wounds, highlighting therapeutic wound dressings …

Biodegradable diblock copolymeric PEG-PCL nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization and applications as anticancer drug delivery agents

A Behl, VS Parmar, S Malhotra, AK Chhillar - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Poly (ethylene glycol) methyl ether-block-poly (Ɛ-caprolactone) copolymers are useful
biomedical materials owing to their amphiphilic nature, biodegradability, biocompatibility …

Application of nanogels as drug delivery systems in multicellular spheroid tumor model

ED Abdolahinia, G Barati, Z Ranjbar-Navazi… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanogels have piqued the interest of researchers as nanoscopic drug delivery systems,
especially for site-specific or time-controlled delivery of therapeutic mediators. A wide range …