Among different polymers, chitosan, the N-deacetylated product of the polysaccharide chitin, is gaining increasing importance in medical and pharmaceutical applications due to its good mucoadhesion and absorption enhancing ability. Moreover, chitosan shows the ability to form hydrogels able to control the rate of drug release from the delivery system as well as protect the drug from chemical an...

Biomedical adhesives have been found to be an attractive alternative suturing in several circumstances. However, date most of the clinically approved formulations are based on synthetic and highly reactive toxic chemicals. In this work, we aimed combine for first time bioactive properties cationic polysaccharide chitosan its intrinsic electrostatic binding negatively charged tissues with biocom...

This research evaluated the importance of the adsorption properties of chitosan a chitosan/zeolite conjugate film for the removal of Cr(VI) ions from solutions in the 5-260 mg/L concentration range, when the pH was adjusted to 4.0 and 6.0. The uptake capacities of the films formed by chitosan and by the chitosan/zeolite conjugate were calculated by mass balance. The equilibrium isotherms were f...

We report the rational design of a chitosan-based drug delivery system. The chitosan derivative N-[(2-hydroxy-3-trimethylammonium)propyl]chitosan chloride (HTCC) was ionically cross-linked by sodium tripolyphosphate (TPP) to form sub-200-nm microgels that are responsive to pH changes. When these microgels were loaded with methotrexate disodium (MTX), a cytotoxic drug for cancer treatment, and c...

A novel tyrosinase biosensor has been developed for a subpicomolar detection of phenols, which is based on the immobilization of tyrosinase in a positively charged chitosan film on a glassy carbon electrode. It was found that chitosan cross-linked with (3-aminooryloxypropyl) dimethoxymethylsilane is beneficial for the immobilization of tyrosinase. The large microscopic surface area and porous m...

In this work, chitosan bead materials were modified by cross-linking with epichlorohydrin (EP) and glutaraldehyde (GA) for the removal of heavy metals in wastewater. Using these cross-linked chitosan materials, the dependence of adsorption of chromate anions on pH was investigated experimentally and theoretically. The experimental results show that the adsorption process of the chromate (Cr) io...

Novel hybrid nanomaterials have been developed for antimicrobial applications. Here we introduce a green route to produce antibacterial nanofiber mats loaded with silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs, 25 nm diameter) enveloped in chitosan after reduction with glucose. The nanofiber mats were obtained from colloidal dispersions of chitosan-based Ag-NPs blended with polyvinyl alcohol. Nanofibers (150 nm ...

Nano-sized polymeric amphiphilic micelle was prepared using the hydrophilic polysaccharide, oligo-chitosan, and hydrophobic side chains, ursolic acid which assists the skin penetration, because the amphiphilic polysaccharide nanoparticles have been widely investigated as the carriers for active agents such as small molecules, proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids due to many advantages in prote...

Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) have been used for surgical treatment of early gastric cancer. These endoscopic techniques require proper submucosal injections beneath the tumor to provide a sufficiently high submucosal fluid cushion (SFC) to facilitate clean dissection and resection of the tumor. Until now, the submucosal injection materials develo...