Recent advances in chitosan-based nanomedicines for cancer chemotherapy

Chitin and Chitosan for Regenerative Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 229-259

  Saneja, Ankit ^a   Nehate, Chetan ^a   Alam, Noor ^a   Gupta, Prem N ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Delivery systems; Nanoparticles; Targeted delivery

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHITOSAN; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; DISEASES; DYES; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; NANOPARTICLES;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTICS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CATIONIC POLYSACCHARIDE; CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TARGETED DELIVERY; TUMOR-TARGETED DRUG DELIVERIES;

TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 84956654947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2511-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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