Biomedical applications of chitin and chitosan based nanomaterials—A short review

By R. Jayakumar, Deepthy Menon, K. Manzoor, S. Nair, H. Tamura. 2010

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering

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Chitosan: A Natural Biopolymer with a Wide and Varied Range of Applications (2020, background): “Chitosan has been used as polymer scaffold in tissue engineering due to the fact these structures display some properties such as high porosity, biodegradability, structural integrity and non-toxic to cell as well promoting the interaction with the cells to favor its adhesion and it should also enco”
Chitin and Chitosan Preparation from Marine Sources. Structure, Properties and Applications (2015, background): “Actually, the main promising developments are aimed to pharmaceutical and biomedical domains [232–245].”
Chitosan-based biomaterials for tissue engineering (2013, background): “under severe alkaline conditions or by enzymatic hydrolysis in the presence of particular enzymes, among of chitin deacetylase [5,6].”
Preparation and application of chitin and its derivatives: a review (2014, background): “Therefore, are suggested for cancer drug delivery [10, 110].”
Modification of Chitosan for the Generation of Functional Derivatives (2019, background): “Chitin was the first polysaccharide identified by the French scientist Braconnot in 1811 and was fully described in 1884 as a natural poly-β-(1-4)-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine [1,2].”
Chitin and Chitosan: Production and Application of Versatile Biomedical Nanomaterials (2016, methodology): “Similarly, mannose receptors, have been used for cancer diagnosis (24).”
Encapsulation of bioactive compounds through electrospinning/electrospraying and spray drying: A comparative assessment of food-related applications (2017, background): “in the range from several micrometers down to tens of nanometers.([98]) It is well known that fiber or particle diameter and morphology are strongly dependent on a number of parameters.”