Polysaccharide nanoparticles: From fabrication to applications

A Plucinski, Z Lyu, BVKJ Schmidt - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polysaccharides have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of applications in
recent years, which is due to their remarkable features such as biocompatibility …

Chitosan as biomaterial in drug delivery and tissue engineering

SM Ahsan, M Thomas, KK Reddy… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chitin is one of the most abundant polysaccharide found on earth. The deacetylated form of
chitin viz. chitosan has been reported for its various important pharmacological properties …

Recent progress of polysaccharide‐based hydrogel interfaces for wound healing and tissue engineering

T Zhu, J Mao, Y Cheng, H Liu, L Lv… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polysaccharide is an abundant and reproducible natural material that is biocompatible and
biodegradable. Polysaccharide and its derivatives also possess distinctive properties such …

Chitosan-based blends for biomedical applications

F Seidi, MK Yazdi, M Jouyandeh, M Dominic… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are the most abundant naturally available carbohydrate polymers;
composed of monosaccharide units covalently connected together. Chitosan is the most …

Preparation, characterization, and potential application of chitosan, chitosan derivatives, and chitosan metal nanoparticles in pharmaceutical drug delivery

TA Ahmed, BM Aljaeid - Drug design, development and therapy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Naturally occurring polymers, particularly of the polysaccharide type, have been used
pharmaceutically for the delivery of a wide variety of therapeutic agents. Chitosan, the …

Stability of chitosan—a challenge for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

E Szymańska, K Winnicka - Marine drugs, 2015 - mdpi.com
Chitosan—one of the natural multifunctional polymers—due to its unique and versatile
biological properties is regarded as a useful compound in medical and pharmaceutical …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of chitosan mediated silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) for potential antimicrobial applications

R Kalaivani, M Maruthupandy, T Muneeswaran… - Frontiers in Laboratory …, 2018 - Elsevier
Synthesis of chitosan mediated silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and its characterization were
fulfilled by UV–vis spectroscopy, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction …

Chitosan based self-assembled nanoparticles in drug delivery

JP Quiñones, H Peniche, C Peniche - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a cationic polysaccharide that is usually obtained by alkaline deacetylation of
chitin poly (N-acetylglucosamine). It is biocompatible, biodegradable, mucoadhesive, and …

“The good, the bad and the ugly” of chitosans

B Bellich, I D'Agostino, S Semeraro, A Gamini… - Marine drugs, 2016 - mdpi.com
The objective of this paper is to emphasize the fact that while consistent interest has been
paid to the industrial use of chitosan, minor attention has been devoted to spread the …

Present and future medical applications of microbial exopolysaccharides

M Moscovici - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbial exopolysaccharides (EPS) have found outstanding medical applications since the
mid-20th century, with the first clinical trials on dextran solutions as plasma expanders. Other …