Recent advances of chitosan nanoparticles as drug carriers

JJ Wang, ZW Zeng, RZ Xiao, T Xie… - International journal …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Chitosan nanoparticles are good drug carriers because of their good biocompatibility and
biodegradability, and can be readily modified. As a new drug delivery system, they have …

Polysaccharides-based nanoparticles as drug delivery systems

Z Liu, Y Jiao, Y Wang, C Zhou, Z Zhang - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Natural polysaccharides, due to their outstanding merits, have received more and more
attention in the field of drug delivery systems. In particular, polysaccharides seem to be the …

Methods for the preparation and manufacture of polymeric nanoparticles

C Vauthier, K Bouchemal - Pharmaceutical research, 2009 - Springer
This review summarizes the different methods of preparation of polymer nanoparticles
including nanospheres and nanocapsules. The first part summarizes the basic principle of …

Polysaccharide-decorated nanoparticles

C Lemarchand, R Gref, P Couvreur - European Journal of Pharmaceutics …, 2004 - Elsevier
Surface modified colloidal carriers such as nanoparticles are able to modulate the
biodistribution of the loaded drug when given intravenously, but also to control the …

Thrombolytic therapy based on fucoidan-functionalized polymer nanoparticles targeting P-selectin

M Juenet, R Aid-Launais, B Li, A Berger, J Aerts… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Injection of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is the standard drug treatment
for thrombolysis. However, rt-PA shows risk of hemorrhages and limited efficiency even at …

Mucoadhesion mechanism of chitosan and thiolated chitosan-poly (isobutyl cyanoacrylate) core-shell nanoparticles

I Bravo-Osuna, C Vauthier, A Farabollini, GF Palmieri… - Biomaterials, 2007 - Elsevier
The study is focused on the evaluation of the potential bioadhesive behaviour of chitosan
and thiolated chitosan (chitosan-TBA)-coated poly (isobutyl cyanoacrylates)(PIBCA) …

The influence of size, shape and vessel geometry on nanoparticle distribution

J Tan, S Shah, A Thomas, HD Ou-Yang… - Microfluidics and …, 2013 - Springer
Nanoparticles (NPs) are emerging as promising carrier platforms for targeted drug delivery
and imaging probes. To evaluate the delivery efficiency, it is important to predict the …

Nanoparticulate drug-delivery systems: an overview

D Thassu, Y Pathak, M Deleers - Nanoparticulate drug delivery …, 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
Nanometrology is the science of measurements at the nanoscale, and its application
underlies all the nanoscience and nanotechnology. There are several good reports and …

Nanoparticles and microparticles as vaccine-delivery systems

M Singh, A Chakrapani, D O'Hagan - Expert review of vaccines, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Vaccine-delivery systems are generally particulate (eg, emulsions, microparticles and
liposomes) and have comparable dimensions to the pathogens, which the immune system …

Modeling particle shape-dependent dynamics in nanomedicine

S Shah, Y Liu, W Hu, J Gao - Journal of nanoscience and …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
One of the major challenges in nanomedicine is to improve nanoparticle cell selectivity and
adhesion efficiency through designing functionalized nanoparticles of controlled sizes …