Natural biomacromolecules have attracted increased attention as carriers in biomedicine in
recent years because of their inherent biochemical and biophysical properties including …

Targeted delivery of drug molecules to diseased sites is a great challenge in pharmaceutical
and biomedical sciences. Fabrication of drug delivery systems (DDS) to target and/or …

Covalent modification of therapeutic compounds is a clinically proven strategy to devise
prodrugs with enhanced treatment efficacies. This prodrug strategy relies on the modified …

Chitosan is a cationic polysaccharide that is usually obtained by alkaline deacetylation of
chitin poly (N-acetylglucosamine). It is biocompatible, biodegradable, mucoadhesive, and …

Targeted drug delivery refers to an established therapeutic strategy that develops platforms
and nanoscale devices for selective delivery of small drug molecules and therapeutic genes …

Chitin and chitosan are biopolymers with excellent bioactive properties, such as
biodegradability, non‐toxicity, biocompatibility, haemostatic activity and antimicrobial …

Chitosan (CS) is one of the most successfully developed biodegradable polymers. Among
the numerous polymers developed to formulate polymeric nanoparticles, CS has fascinated …

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 …

Chitosan has prompted the continuous impetus for the development of safe and effective
drug delivery systems because of its unique physicochemical and biological characteristics …

Nanomedicine is extensively employed for cancer treatment owing to its unique advantages
over conventional drugs and imaging agents. This increased attention to nanomedicine …