BookSougata Jana, Subrata Jana, editors.
Summary: Thanks to their unique properties, chitosan and chitosan-based materials have numerous applications in the field of biomedicine, especially in drug delivery. This book examines biomedical applications of functional chitosan, exploring the various functions and applications in the development of chitosan-based biomaterials. It also describes the chemical structure of chitosan and discusses the relationship between their structure and functions, providing a theoretical basis for the design of biomaterials. Lastly, it reviews chemically modified and composite materials of chitin and chitosan derivatives for biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, nanomedicine, drug delivery, and gene delivery.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Chitosan and its Derivatives: a New Versatile Bio-polymer for Various Applications
Chapter 2. Application of Chitosan in Oral Drug Delivery
Chapter 3. Transdermal Delivery of Chitosan Based Systems
Chapter 4 . Chitosan Based Ocular Drug Delivery systems
Chapter 5. Functional Chitosan Carriers for Oral Colon-Specific Drug Delivery
Chapter 6. Chitosan-based Hydrogels for Drug Delivery
Chapter 7. Recent Advances of Chitosan based Systems for Delivery of Anticancer Drugs
Chapter 8. Chitosan-based systems for Gene Delivery
Chapter 9. Chitosan-based Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: Drug Delivery Application
Chapter 10. Chitosan-based Systems in Tissue Engineering
Chapter 11. Chitosan based Nanoformulation as Carriers of Small Molecules for Tissue Regeneration
Chapter 12. Chitosan based Systems for Theranostic Applications
Chapter 13. Grafted Chitosan Systems for Biomedical Applications
Chapter 14. Chitosan-based Systems for Controlled Delivery of Antimicrobial Peptides for Biomedical Application
Chapter 15. Antibacterial Activity of Chitosan based Systems.