Chitosan and its derivatives for tissue engineering applications.

By In-Yong Kim, S. Seo, H. Moon, M. Yoo, In-Young Park, Bom-Chol Kim, C. Cho. Biotechnology Advances, 2008

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering

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Local drug delivery strategies for cancer treatment: gels, nanoparticles, polymeric films, rods, and wafers. (2012, background): “Chitosan is produced by the deactylation of chitin, and has been used clinically in applications such as suture and wound healing materials [78].”
Stability of Chitosan—A Challenge for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications (2015, background): “Among various carbohydrate polymers, chitosan—a natural multifunctional polysaccharide—due to its biocompatibility, biodegradability, and mucoadhesiveness has been extensively studied for a number of biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, including prolonged or controlled release drug delivery ”
Cross-linking in Hydrogels - A Review (2014, background): “A variety of polysaccharides like heparin, chitosan, dextran and alginate have been explored as hydrogels for tissue engineering owing to their good biocompatibility, biodegradability, as well as excellent gel-forming properties [38–42].”
Chitosan: An Update on Potential Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications (2015, background): “It provides certain mechanical and structural properties for proper functioning for the repaired tissues [78].”
Current development of biodegradable polymeric materials for biomedical applications (2018, background): “These functional capabilities make chitin/chitosan-based materials exhibit a bactericidal effect on both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, giving them a broad medical utility in tissue engineering and biomedical applications.(84,86) Specifically, chitin/chitosan-based materials have dem-”
Chitosan: A Natural Biopolymer with a Wide and Varied Range of Applications (2020, background): “In order to minimize these drawbacks, several biopolymers such as chitosan have been studied in bone tissue engineering due to its capacity to promote growth and mineral rich matrix deposition by osteoblasts in culture [76].”