Why is chitosan mucoadhesive?

By Ioannis A Sogias, Adrian C Williams, V. Khutoryanskiy. Biomacromolecules, 2008

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science

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In Biomaterials

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3. M. Cook
4. G. Tzortzis
5. D. Charalampopoulos
6. V. Khutoryanskiy

In Organic Chemistry

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2. W. Lau
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Citations in the corpus

• Microencapsulation of probiotics for gastrointestinal delivery. (2012, background): “An additional tool for controlling release is mucoadhesion to the mucosal membranes lining the epithelial tissues [35].”
• Chitosan and Its Derivatives for Application in Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Systems (2018, methodology): “…studies explored the solubility of half-acetylated chitosan and its subsequent effect on the antimicrobial and mucoadhesive properties of chitosan [15,17,35,122]. studies explored the solubility of half-acetylated chitosan and its subsequent effect on the antimicrobial and mucoadhesive properties…”