Improving the safety efficacy ratio of existing drugs is a current challenge to be addressed
rather than the development of novel drugs which involve much expense and time. The …

Natural polymers have been extensively explored as the vehicles for encapsulation and
delivery of drugs and other bioactive molecules, which have attracted tremendous attention …

In the biomedical field, researchers are always looking for novel materials with improved
qualities that may be used in a variety of applications, including pharmaceutical …

Chitosan and chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) have been reported to possess various
biomedical properties, including antimicrobial activities, immuno-enhancing effects, and anti …

The rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microbes is becoming an
imminent global public health problem. Treatment with conventional antibiotics often leads …

Colon-targeted drug delivery systems is an active area of research that is designed to
selectively release the drug in the colonic environment to enhance the oral delivery of active …

Chitosan was grafted with O-methyl-O′-succinylpolyethylene glycol and oleic acid after a
two-step carbodiimide coupling. The structural and physicochemical characterization of the …

Chitin and chitosan were obtained by chemical treatments of shrimp shells. Different particle
sizes (50–1000 μm) of the raw material were used to study their effect on size distribution …

Purpose of this article is developing novel, inexpensive curcumin loaded chitosan
nanoparticles with targeting ability. Curcumin loaded folate-modified-chitosan-nanoparticles …

Chitooligosaccharides (COS) are the degraded products of chitin or chitosan. COS is water-
soluble, non-cytotoxic to organisms, readily absorbed through the intestine, and eliminated …