Chitosan in Drug Delivery provides thorough insights into chitosan chemistry, collection, chemical modifications, characterization and applications in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare fields. The book explores molecular weight, degree of deacetylation and molecular geometry, emphasizing recent advances in the field as written by academic, industry and regulatory scientists. It will be a useful resource for pharmaceutical scientists, including industrial pharmacists, analytical scientists, postgraduate students, health care professionals and regulatory scientists actively involved in pharmaceutical product and process development in natural polymers containing drug delivery.
- Provides methodologies for the design, development and selection of chitosan in drug delivery for particular therapeutic applications
- Includes illustrations demonstrating the mechanism of biological interaction of chitosan
- Discusses the regulatory aspects and demonstrates the clinical efficacy of chitosan
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
Illustrationen
Approx. 150 illustrations (50 in full color)
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ISBN-13
978-0-12-819337-2 (9780128193372)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1. Chitosan: Source, chemistry and properties2. Chitosan-based single-units for oral drug delivery3. Chitosan nanoparticles in drug delivery4. Chitosan in transdermal drug delivery5. Chitosan in ocular drug delivery6. Chitosan in colon-targeted drug delivery7. Chitosan as biomaterial for implantable drug delivery8. Chitosan-based systems in cancer therapeutics9. Chitosan-based hydrogels in drug delivery10. In situ gels of chitosan for drug delivery applications11. Chitosan as mucoadhesive polymer used in drug delivery12. Thiolated chitosan as improved bioadhesive polymer in drug delivery13. Cross-linked chitosans in drug delivery14. Graft copolymers of chitosan in drug delivery applications15. PEGylated chitosans in drug delivery applications16. Carboxymethyl chitosan in drug delivery17. Polyelectrolyte complex and interpenetrated network systems made of chitosan in drug delivery 18. Chitosan as a responsive biopolymer in drug delivery19. Chitosan-based nanobiocomposites in drug delivery20. Chitosan for delivery of biomolecules
