Chitosan as an environment friendly biomaterial–a review on recent modifications and applications

PS Bakshi, D Selvakumar, K Kadirvelu… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Amongst the natural polymers, chitin is the second most abundant, present mainly in fungi
and exoskeleton of crustaceans. It forms a major part of the seafood waste as compiled and …

Polymeric nanoparticles for delivery of natural bioactive agents: recent advances and challenges

M Elmowafy, K Shalaby, MH Elkomy, OA Alsaidan… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, several natural bioactive agents have been widely utilized in the
treatment and prevention of many diseases owing to their unique and versatile therapeutic …

Anticancer activity of chitosan, chitosan derivatives, and their mechanism of action

HS Adhikari, PN Yadav - International Journal of Biomaterials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tailoring of chitosan through the involvement of its amino, acetamido, and hydroxy groups
can give derivatives of enhanced solubility and remarkable anticancer activity. The general …

Overviews on the cellular uptake mechanism of polysaccharide colloidal nanoparticles

S Salatin, A Yari Khosroushahi - Journal of cellular and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticulate drug/gene carriers have gained much attention in the past decades
because of their versatile and tunable properties. However, efficacy of the therapeutic …

A review on drug delivery system for tumor therapy

G Liu, L Yang, G Chen, F Xu, F Yang, H Yu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, with the development of nanomaterials, the research of drug delivery
systems has become a new field of cancer therapy. Compared with conventional antitumor …

Chitosan-based nanoparticles as drug delivery systems: a review on two decades of research

S Naskar, K Kuotsu, S Sharma - Journal of drug targeting, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Chitosan (CS) is one of the most functional natural biopolymer widely used in the
pharmaceutical field due to its biocompatibility and biodegradability. These privileges lead …

Polysaccharide-based nanoparticles by chitosan and gum arabic polyelectrolyte complexation as carriers for curcumin

C Tan, J Xie, X Zhang, J Cai, S Xia - Food Hydrocolloids, 2016 - Elsevier
This study developed the polysaccharide-based nanoparticles by the polyelectrolyte
complexation between chitosan (CS) and gum arabic (GA) as novel delivery systems for …

Progress in nanomedicine-based drug delivery in designing of chitosan nanoparticles for cancer therapy

MZ Ahmad, M Rizwanullah, J Ahmad… - … Journal of Polymeric …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer is among the most dreadful fatal diseases globally, and the efficacy of recent
chemotherapeutic approaches is limited due to many related drawbacks. The major …

Modified porous starches loading curcumin and improving the free radical scavenging ability and release properties of curcumin

X Han, P Ma, M Shen, H Wen, J Xie - Food Research International, 2023 - Elsevier
Maize porous starch-curcumin microspheres were prepared by encapsulating curcumin into
cross-linked porous starch and oxidized porous starch to investigate the effect of modified …

Pickering emulsions stabilized nanocellulosic-based nanoparticles for coumarin and curcumin nanoencapsulations: In vitro release, anticancer and antimicrobial …

FA Ngwabebhoh, SI Erdagi, U Yildiz - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Pickering emulsion stabilized modified nanocellulose were prepared and
optimized.•Emulsions nanosize and polydispersity index were evaluated for …