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Chitosan in Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition - October 25, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Md Saquib Hasnain, Sarwar Beg, Amit Kumar Nayak
  • Language: English

Chitosan in Drug Delivery provides thorough insights into chitosan chemistry, collection, chemical modifications, characterization and applications in the pharmaceutical industry… Read more

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Description

Chitosan in Drug Delivery provides thorough insights into chitosan chemistry, collection, chemical modifications, characterization and applications in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare fields. The book explores molecular weight, degree of deacetylation and molecular geometry, emphasizing recent advances in the field as written by academic, industry and regulatory scientists. It will be a useful resource for pharmaceutical scientists, including industrial pharmacists, analytical scientists, postgraduate students, health care professionals and regulatory scientists actively involved in pharmaceutical product and process development in natural polymers containing drug delivery.

Key features

  • Provides methodologies for the design, development and selection of chitosan in drug delivery 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, academicians, pharmaceutical scientists including industrial pharmacists & analytical scientists, health care professionals and regulatory scientists actively involved in pharmaceutical product and process development of natural polymer containing drug delivery

Table of contents

1. Chitosan: Source, chemistry and properties

2. Chitosan-based single-units for oral drug delivery

3. Chitosan nanoparticles in drug delivery

4. Chitosan in transdermal drug delivery

5. Chitosan in ocular drug delivery

6. Chitosan in colon-targeted drug delivery

7. Chitosan as biomaterial for implantable drug delivery

8. Chitosan-based systems in cancer therapeutics

9. Chitosan-based hydrogels in drug delivery

10. In situ gels of chitosan for drug delivery applications

11. Chitosan as mucoadhesive polymer used in drug delivery

12. Thiolated chitosan as improved bioadhesive polymer in drug delivery

13. Cross-linked chitosans in drug delivery

14. Graft copolymers of chitosan in drug delivery applications

15. PEGylated chitosans in drug delivery applications

16. Carboxymethyl chitosan in drug delivery

17. Polyelectrolyte complex and interpenetrated network systems made of chitosan in drug delivery

18. Chitosan as a responsive biopolymer in drug delivery

19. Chitosan-based nanobiocomposites in drug delivery

20. Chitosan for delivery of biomolecules

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 26, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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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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