Application of Chitosan and Hyaluronan in Medicine
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2022) | Viewed by 55736
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hyaluronan; reactive oxygen species; drugs; antioxidants; biopolymers
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research papers and reviews in numerous fields of medicine.
This Special Issue aims to publish papers concerning applications of chitosan and hyaluronan in medicine. Chitosan is synthesized by the alkaline N-deacetylation of chitin (β-N-acetyl-glucosamine polymer). Chitosan has several advantageous properties, such as degradability, biocompatibility, physiological inertness, absence of toxicity, remarkable affinity to proteins, hemostaticity, lack of allergenicity, and antibacterial activity. Chitosan and its derivatives have been widely used in cosmetics and in the field of medicine, including biomaterials for tissue-engineered scaffolds and tissue repair, wound dressings, and biochemical separation systems. Hyaluronan, another β-polymer, is one of the major structural components of the extracellular matrix in vertebrates. HA is widely distributed in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Adult humans contain about 12–15 g of HA, most of which occurs in skin, vitreous body of the eye, umbilical cord, synovial fluid of articular joints. The HA biopolymer provides a wide range of pharmacological activities, including anti-inflammatory, wound healing and tissue regenerating, immunomodulatory, anti-cancer, anti-proliferative, anti-diabetic, anti-aging, skin repairing, and cosmetic properties.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: osteoarthritis, skin wound healing, tissue engineering, gene delivery, ophthalmology, dentistry, cancer.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Katarína Valachová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polysaccharides
- reactive oxygen species
- skin wound healing
- tissue engineering
- ophthalmology
- dentistry
- gene delivery
- cancer
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