pH-sensitive and specific ligand-conjugated chitosan nanogels for efficient drug delivery.

Nanogels have been recently attracted attention because they exhibit significantly different behaviors compared with nanoparticles. Among them, chitosan (CS) nanogels have gained considerable attention from researchers for in vivo applications due to bioactivity, biodegradability, mucoadhesiveness, and biocompatibility of CS. In this review, we have summarized the applications of CS nanogels for efficient drug delivery. Specifically, CS nanogels can be modified by pH-sensitive groups or specific ligands to obtain the corresponding functions. These functional CS nanogels have been used to deliver therapeutic agents, such as anti-cancer drugs, genes, and vaccines. By reviewing the recent research progress on CS nanogels in pharmaceutical applications, it will provide biomaterial researchers potential help for the development of CS nanogel delivery system to meet clinical needs.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

• Publication date

  2019-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.08.237PMID 31473314
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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