Modified chitosan hydrogels as drug delivery and tissue engineering systems: present status and applications

• Egile Nagusiak: Tapan Kumar Giri (Egilea), Amrita Thakur (Egilea), Amit Alexander (Egilea), Ajazuddin (Egilea), Hemant Badwaik (Egilea), Dulal Krishna Tripathi (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Elsevier, 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Chitosan, a natural cationic polysaccharide, is prepared industrially by the hydrolysis of the aminoacetyl groups of chitin, a naturally available marine polymer. Chitosan is a non-toxic, biocompatible and biodegradable polymer and has attracted considerable interest in a wide range of biomedical an...