Today´s topic is chitosan for drug delivery systems. In July and August 2016, 33 articles about chitosan combined with drug delivery systems were published. As might be expected, top publisher are China (13 articles), United States (5) and India (4). The articles investigated drug release by chitosan-based micro- or nanoparticles, hydrogels and nanocomposites. Thereby controlled release of cytostatics, proteins or peptides was mainly studied. (Source: www.gopubmed.org)

This time the focus is on the small ones - Production and application of chitosan oligosaccharides:

In May and June 2016, 639 articles about chitosan, regarding mostly the topics nanoparticles, pharmaceutical preparations und evaluation studies, were published. China (128 articles), United States (42) and India (21) were leading countries in chitosan research.

In April 2016, 268 publications about chitosan were released. In addition to China (52) and the United States (25), Brazil (15) is on the third place of nations with the most publications. The following studies deal with chitosan as drug delivery system to support regeneration of dermal tissue or articular cartilage.

We present a new interesting publication with chitosan from HMC⁺ for you...