Sodium alginate—natural microencapsulation material of polymeric microparticles

OD Frent, LG Vicas, N Duteanu, CM Morgovan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
From the multitude of materials currently available on the market that can be used in the
development of microparticles, sodium alginate has become one of the most studied natural …

Biofilm Forming Lactobacillus: New Challenges for the Development of Probiotics

MJ Salas-Jara, A Ilabaca, M Vega, A García - Microorganisms, 2016 - mdpi.com
Probiotics are live bacteria, generally administered in food, conferring beneficial effects to
the host because they help to prevent or treat diseases, the majority of which are …

Bioactive antibacterial bilayer PCL/gelatin nanofibrous scaffold promotes full-thickness wound healing

A Jafari, A Amirsadeghi, S Hassanajili… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of diabetic, chronic, and full-thickness wounds is a challenge as these
injuries usually lead to infections that cause delayed and inappropriate healing. Therefore …

Advanced progress of microencapsulation technologies: In vivo and in vitro models for studying oral and transdermal drug deliveries

PL Lam, R Gambari - Journal of Controlled Release, 2014 - Elsevier
This review provides an overall discussion of microencapsulation systems for both oral and
transdermal drug deliveries. Clinically, many drugs, especially proteins and peptides, are …

Naturally occurring polyelectrolytes and their use for the development of complex-based mucoadhesive drug delivery systems: an overview

R Cazorla-Luna, A Martín-Illana, F Notario-Pérez… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biopolymers have several advantages for the development of drug delivery systems, since
they are biocompatible, biodegradable and easy to obtain from renewable resources …

Evaluation of amygdalin-loaded alginate-chitosan nanoparticles as biocompatible drug delivery carriers for anticancerous efficacy

R Sohail, SR Abbas - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2020 - Elsevier
Amygdalin, despite possessing anticancerous properties, has been viewed as a
controversial choice due to the presence of the cyanide group. Here, we synthesise and …

Gastroprotective polysaccharide from natural sources: Review on structure, mechanism, and structure–activity relationship

XY Wang, JY Yin, JL Hu, SP Nie, MY Xie - Food Frontiers, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polysaccharides from natural sources have the potentials in being used as substitutes of
chemosynthetic drugs for gastroprotection because of its safety and efficacy. For giving a …

[HTML][HTML] Degradation properties and metabolic activity of alginate and chitosan polyelectrolytes for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications

V Guarino, T Caputo, R Altobelli… - AIMS Materials …, 2015 - aimspress.com
Polysaccharides are long monosaccharide units which are emerging as promising materials
for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications due to their biocompatibility, mostly …

Green synthesis, characterization and in vitro release of cinnamaldehyde/sodium alginate/chitosan nanoparticles

M Ji, X Sun, X Guo, W Zhu, J Wu, L Chen, J Wang… - Food hydrocolloids, 2019 - Elsevier
As a natural preservative, cinnamaldehyde (CA) has a bright application prospect. However,
CA is sensitive to light and can be easily oxidized. What's more, its water solubility is poor …

Topically Applied Biopolymer-Based Tri-Layered Hierarchically Structured Nanofibrous Scaffold with a Self-Pumping Effect for Accelerated Full-Thickness Wound …

KH Hamza, AA El-Shanshory, MM Agwa… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wound healing has grown to be a significant problem at a global scale. The lack of
multifunctionality in most wound dressing-based biopolymers prevents them from meeting …