Chitosan and its derivatives as promising drug delivery carriers
By: M. Prabaharan
Series: Biomedical and nanomedical technologies - concise monograph series; Biomedical and nanomedical technologies
Publisher: ASME; Co-published by Momentum Press, LLC
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780791860052
Subjects: Biotechnology; Chitosan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [59]-76).
Table of contents: title: Sources of chitosan; title: Advantages of chitosan as drug delivery systems; title: Chitosan-based drug delivery systems: Chitosan microspheres; title: Chemically modified chitosan; title: Graft copolymerized chitosan; title: Chitosan-based stimuli-responsive hydrogels; title: Chitosan-ligand conjugates for active target drug delivery.