Chitosan-Based Biopharmaceutical Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Chitosan-Based Systems for Biopharmaceuticals: Delivery, Targeting and Polymer Therapeutics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 393-427

  Jiang, Tao ^a   Deng, Meng ^b,c   Abdel Fattah, Wafa I ^d   Laurencin, Cato T ^b,c  

^a Zimmer Orthobiologics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chitosan, chitosan polymer blends, in bone tissue engineering; Chitosan based biopharmaceutical scaffold fabrication; Chitosan based biopharmaceutical scaffolds, in tissue engineering; Fibermeshes, from melt spinning or solution spinning; Hard tissue regeneration; Methodologies of fabricating chitosan scaffolds; Regenerative medicine, synonymously used with tissue engineering; Thermogelling polymers, as in situ gelling systems; Thermogelling system, and chitosan glycerophosphate mixture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885142453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119962977.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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