Abstract Nanosized drug delivery systems have rapidly emerged as a promising approach to tumor therapy, which still many challenges in clinical application. In this study, doxorubicin-loaded O-carboxymethyl chitosan/perfluorohexane nanodroplets (O-CS-DOX NDs) were synthesized and functionally tested an effective system vitro vivo. O-CS-DOX NDs with small size (159.6 nm) good doxorubicin encapsu...

Present review article aims to explain use of injectable hydrogels and microspheres derived from natural polysaccharides as drug delivery systems and cell scaffolds. Polysaccharides isolated from natural sources are proved much better than synthetic polymers for making single and composite hydrogels. This paper emphasizes recent developments occurred in use of amphiphilic polysaccharides for bi...

A new type of amphiphilic chitosan, which was synthesized through the use of both hydrophilic carboxymethyl and hydrophobic hexanoyl substitutions, was employed to self-assemble into a hollow nanocapsule in an aqueous environment. Critical aggregation concentration (cac) and zeta potential were experimentally identified for the amphiphilic chitosan (CHC). Both experimental data suggested that t...

Graphene oxide nanosheets (GONs)/carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC)/Fe₃O₄ magnetic composite microspheres (MCMs) were prepared by enclosing Fe₃O₄ particles with CMC and GONs in turn. The microstructures of GONs and GONs/CMC/Fe₃O₄ MCMs were characterized by FTIR, XRD, TEM, and SEM. The effects of GON content, pH value, and adsorption time on the adsorption capacity of the MCMs were investigated. The r...