Recent advances of emerging green chitosan-based biomaterials with potential biomedical applications: A review

A Khan, KA Alamry - Carbohydrate Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan is the most abundant natural biopolymer, after cellulose. It is mainly derived from
the fungi, shrimp's shells, and exoskeleton of crustaceans, through the deacetylation of …

Hyaluronic acid-functionalized lipoplexes and polyplexes as emerging nanocarriers for receptor-targeted cancer therapy

J Chandra, N Molugulu, S Annadurai, S Wahab… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is an intricate disease that develops as a response to a combination of hereditary
and environmental risk factors, which then result in a variety of changes to the genome. The …

Phenylboronic acid modification augments the lysosome escape and antitumor efficacy of a cylindrical polymer brush-based prodrug

R Wang, C Yin, C Liu, Y Sun, P Xiao, J Li… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Timely lysosome escape is of paramount importance for endocytosed nanomedicines to
avoid premature degradation under the acidic and hydrolytic conditions in lysosomes …

Ionic liquids in the processing and chemical modification of chitin and chitosan for biomedical applications

SS Silva, JF Mano, RL Reis - Green Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) have huge potential to provide advances in many areas such as energy,
pharmaceutical formulations, biomedical sciences, and technology. In the biomedical field …

Strategies in the design of endosomolytic agents for facilitating endosomal escape in nanoparticles

A Ahmad, JM Khan, S Haque - Biochimie, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles (NPs) are one of the leading and promising technologies for gene and drug
delivery. However, despite continuous advancements in the delivery of NPs, endosomal …

Multifaceted applications of chitosan in cancer drug delivery and therapy

A Babu, R Ramesh - Marine drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a versatile polysaccharide of biological origin. Due to the biocompatible and
biodegradable nature of chitosan, it is intensively utilized in biomedical applications in …

Development of a gene-activated scaffold platform for tissue engineering applications using chitosan-pDNA nanoparticles on collagen-based scaffolds

RM Raftery, EG Tierney, CM Curtin, SA Cryan… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Biomaterial scaffolds that support cell infiltration and tissue formation can also function as
platforms for the delivery of therapeutics such as drugs, proteins, and genes. As burst …

Development of mannose-anchored thiolated amphotericin B nanocarriers for treatment of visceral leishmaniasis

G Shahnaz, BJ Edagwa, JE McMillan, S Akhtar… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: Our goal was to improve treatment outcomes for visceral leishmaniasis by designing
nanocarriers that improve drug biodistribution and half-life. Thus, long-acting mannose …

Spermine-Based Poly (β-amino ester) s for siRNA Delivery against Mutated KRAS in Lung Cancer

Y Jin, F Adams, L Isert, D Baldassi… - Molecular …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polyethylenimine (PEI) is a highly efficient cationic polymer for nucleic acid delivery, and
although it is commonly used in preclinical studies, its clinical application is limited because …

Development of multifunctional lipid nanocapsules for the co-delivery of paclitaxel and CpG-ODN in the treatment of glioblastoma.

G Lollo, M Vincent, G Ullio-Gamboa, L Lemaire… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, multifunctional lipid nanocapsules (M-LNC) were designed to combine the
activity of the cytotoxic drug paclitaxel (PTX) with the immunostimulant CpG. This …