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Chitosan in Biomedical Applications

  • 1st Edition - December 1, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Md Saquib Hasnain, Sarwar Beg, Amit Kumar Nayak
  • Language: English

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Description

Chitosan in Biomedical Applications provides a thorough insight into the complete chitosan chemistry, collection, chemical modifications, characterization and applications of chitosan in biomedical applications and healthcare fields. Chitosan, a biopolymer of natural origin, has been explored for its variety of applications in biomedical research, medical diagnostic aids and material science. It is the second most abundant natural biopolymer after cellulose, and considered as an excellent excipient because of its non-toxic, stable, biodegradable properties. Several research innovations have been made on applications of chitosan in biomedical applications. The book explores key topics, such as molecular weight, degree of deacetylation, and molecular geometry, along with an emphasis on recent advances in the field written by academic, industry, and clinical researchers. Chitosan in Biomedical Applications will be of interest to those in biomedical fields including the biomaterials and tissue engineering community investigating and developing biomaterials for biomedical applications, particularly graduate students, young faculty and others exploring chitosan-based materials.

Key features

  • Provides methodology for the design, development and selection of chitosan in biomedical applications for particular therapeutic applications
  • Includes illustrations demonstrating the mechanism of biological interaction of chitosan
  • Discusses the regulatory aspects and demonstrates the clinical efficacy of chitosan

Readership

Postgraduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, biomedical scientists including industrial pharmacists and analytical scientists, health care professionals and regulatory scientists actively involved in biomedical sciences and process development of natural polymer for biomedical applications

Table of contents

1. Introduction to chitosan, a versatile biomedical polymer

2. Biological and pharmacological activities of chitosan

3. Antimicrobial applications of chitosan

4. Micro- and nano-scale chitosan-based particles for biomedical uses

5. Biomedical applications of chitosan-based hydrogels

6. Electrospun chitosan for biomedical applications

7. Chitosan nanocomposites for biomedical applications

8. Uses of chitosan in drug delivery

9. Chitosan-based nanotherapeutics

10. Chitosan-based systems in diabetes treatment

11. Uses of chitosan in cancer therapeutics

12. Environmental stimuli-sensitive chitosan nanocarriers in therapeutics

13. Colon-targeting by chitosan systems

14. Protein and peptide delivery by chitosan systems

15. Gene and growth factor delivery by chitosan systems

16. Mucosal vaccination through chitosan-based delivery systems

17. Enzyme immobilizations by using chitosan systems

18. Applications of chitosan in orthopaedics and dentistry

19. Chitosan-based scaffolds in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

20. Wound healing/dressing applications of chitosan systems

21. Coating of chitosan onto bone implants

22. Bioimaging applications of chitosan-based systems

23. Drawbacks of chitosan usage in biomedical area

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 6, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

MH

Md Saquib Hasnain

Md Saquib Hasnain (Ph.D) is currently working as the Professor and Dean, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Barasat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has over 13 years of research experience in the field of drug delivery and pharmaceutical formulation analyses, especially systematic development and characterization of diverse nanostructured drug delivery systems, controlled release drug delivery systems, bioenhanced drug delivery systems, nanomaterials and nanocomposites employing Quality by Design approaches and many more. Till date he has authored over 100 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals, more than 100 book chapters and 30 books to his credit. He is also serving as the reviewer of several prestigious journals. Overall, he has earned a highly impressive publishing and cited record. He has also participated and presented his research work at over ten conferences in India, and abroad. He was also a member of scientific societies i.e., Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain, International Association of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, Switzerland and Swiss Chemical Society, Switzerland.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Adamas University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

SB

Sarwar Beg

Sarwar Beg, PhD is currently serving as AMS-DBT Newton International Fellow at University of Central Lancashire, UK, and working in the area of glioblastoma research using targeted nanomedicines. He is also serving as the Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. He has over a decade of teaching and research experience in the field of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, especially in the development of novel and nanostructured drug delivery systems using Quality-by-Design paradigms with core expertise in computational pharmaceutics, experimental designs and multivariate statistical techniques. He has authored over 200 publications, 60 book chapters, 15 books, 03 Indian patent applications and H-Index of 40 with over 5400 citations to his credit.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India

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Amit Kumar Nayak

Amit Kumar Nayak (M. Pharm, Ph.D) is currently working as Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Siksha ‘O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India. He has earned his PhD from IFTM University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has over 14 years of research experiences in the field of pharmaceutics, especially in the development and characterization of novel biopolymeric and nanostructured drug delivery systems. Till date, he has authored more than 138 research and review publications in various high-impact peer-reviewed journals and 135 book chapters. He has edited/authored 23 international books to his credit. Dr. Nayak has presented his research work at several conferences. He has received University Foundation Day Research Award, 2019 and 2022 by Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. Dr. Nayak is a life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and a registered pharmacist.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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