
Chitosan in Drug Delivery
- 1st Edition - October 25, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Md Saquib Hasnain, Sarwar Beg, Amit Kumar Nayak
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 3 3 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 3 3 7 - 2
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Request a sales quoteChitosan 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.
- 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 25, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 556
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128193365
- eBook ISBN: 9780128193372
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Md Saquib Hasnain
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Sarwar Beg
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Amit Kumar Nayak
Dr. Amit Kumar Nayak (MPharm, PhD) is working as a professor, at the Department of Pharmaceutics, 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.