Chitosan in Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery: Focus on Local Vaginal Therapy

Chitosan in Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery: Focus on Local Vaginal Therapy

Mucoadhesive drug therapy destined for localized drug treatment is gaining increasing importance in today’s drug development. Chitosan, due to its known biodegradability, bioadhesiveness and excellent safety profile offers means to improve mucosal drug therapy. We have used chitosan as mucoadhesive...

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Main Authors: Toril Andersen, Stefan Bleher, Gøril Eide Flaten, Ingunn Tho, Sofia Mattsson, Nataša Škalko-Basnet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-01-01
Series:Marine Drugs
Subjects:
chitosan
drug delivery
mucoadhesion
vaginal therapy
FITC-dextran
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/13/1/222

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