Chitosan-based nanomedicine for brain delivery: Where are we heading?

C Pacheco, F Sousa, B Sarmento - Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Neurological disorders have been increased in the last years, affecting over one billion
people globally. The lack of successful treatments is related to the low brain bioavailability of …

[HTML][HTML] Chitosan-based nanocarriers for nose to brain delivery

BA Aderibigbe, T Naki - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the treatment of brain diseases, most potent drugs that have been developed exhibit poor
therapeutic outcomes resulting from the inability of a therapeutic amount of the drug to reach …

[HTML][HTML] Chitosan–An alternative drug delivery approach for neurodegenerative diseases

M Iyer, A Elangovan, R Sennimalai, HWS Babu… - Carbohydrate Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Neurological disorders have become severe and dreadful issues around the globe that are
rarely directly mediated because of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Despite the various …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the role of chitosan for nasal drug delivery systems: A review

G Kaur, J Goyal, PK Behera, S Devi, SK Singh… - Carbohydrate Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
The discipline of nanoscience has made enormous strides in the recent two decades. The
researchers in the field of nanomedicine have been looking into using natural …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming the blood-brain barrier: Functionalised chitosan nanocarriers

AE Caprifico, PJS Foot, E Polycarpou, G Calabrese - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The major impediment to the delivery of therapeutics to the brain is the presence of the
blood-brain barrier (BBB). The BBB allows for the entrance of essential nutrients while …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of chitosan and its derivatives for biomedical applications in the central nervous system

DD Ojeda-Hernández, AA Canales-Aguirre… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
It is well known that the central nervous system (CNS) has a limited regenerative capacity
and that many therapeutic molecules cannot cross the blood brain barrier (BBB). The use of …

A Review on Chitosan in Drug Delivery for Treatment of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

M Shayganfard - Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Neurological diseases are known as global health problems with a growing number of
patients annually. Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and …

Carbohydrate nanoparticles for brain delivery

A Lalatsa, E Barbu - International review of neurobiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Many brain tumors and neurological diseases can greatly benefit from the use of emerging
nanotechnologies based on targeted nanomedicines that are able to noninvasively transport …

Modulating chitosan-PLGA nanoparticle properties to design a co-delivery platform for glioblastoma therapy intended for nose-to-brain route

NN Ferreira, S Granja, FI Boni, FG Prezotti… - Drug Delivery and …, 2020 - Springer
Nose-to-brain delivery is a promising approach to target drugs into the brain, avoiding the
blood-brain barrier and other drawbacks related to systemic absorption, and enabling an …

Carbohydrate polymer-based nanoparticle application in drug delivery for CNS-related disorders

R Ansari, SM Sadati, N Mozafari, H Ashrafi… - European Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain delivery of drugs faces limitations due to the physiological and physical barriers. One
of the strategies to overcome this problem is the use of nanotechnology in a pharmaceutical …