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Chitosan Based Nanomaterials and Its Applications

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Chitosan-based nanomaterials with good biodegradability, biocompatibility, and low toxicity display immense potential as carriers for controlled delivery of various therapeutic agents. Chitosan is a linear polysaccharide composed of randomly distributed b-(1-4)-linked d-glucosamine and N-acetyl-d-glucosamine. It is one of the major cationic polymers and the second most abundant polysaccharides in nature. It is extensively used to the biomedical and the industrial fields. Particularly, chitosan has been investigated much in the field of gene therapy during the last decade for its biocompatibility and non-cytotoxicity. Nevertheless, it has a number of problems such as solubility, low transfection efficiency, and low specialty on targeted disease. To circumvent these issues, different approaches have been reported to enhance them.

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