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MARINE DRUGS
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/md15040096
Keywords
chitosan; gene delivery; drug delivery; adjuvant; cancer; nanoparticle
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 CA167516]
- Stephenson Cancer Center Seed Grant
- Presbyterian Health Foundation Seed Grant
- Presbyterian Health Foundation Bridge Grant
- Jim and Christy Everest Endowed Chair in Cancer Developmental Therapeutics, at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
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Chitosan is a versatile polysaccharide of biological origin. Due to the biocompatible and biodegradable nature of chitosan, it is intensively utilized in biomedical applications in scaffold engineering as an absorption enhancer, and for bioactive and controlled drug release. In cancer therapy, chitosan has multifaceted applications, such as assisting in gene delivery and chemotherapeutic delivery, and as an immunoadjuvant for vaccines. The present review highlights the recent applications of chitosan and chitosan derivatives in cancer therapy.
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