Chitin and Chitosan in Medical Applications
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 95
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug; chitin; medical application; biochemistry; biotechnology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chitin and chitosan are widely used biomaterials in medical/pharmaceutical applications because of their favourable properties, which include biocompatibility, biodegradability, low toxicity and antimicrobial activity. Well-known current uses of chitin and chitosan include (but are not limited to) wound healing, drug delivery, tissue regeneration and chronic inflammation.
Original/innovative reviews, perspective reviews and research (experimental/theoretical) manuscripts are welcome for submission to this Special Issue of Marine Drugs entitled “Chitin and Chitosan in Medical Applications”, which emphasizes scientific advances that are being/could be made in extending the use of one or both compounds and/or their derivatives in the foregoing area.
We welcome all subject matter pertaining to the following:
(i) isolation/purification, novel sources of chitin/chitosan and derivatives thereof;
(ii) qualitative/quantitative analysis;
(iii) relationship of physical and chemical properties to medical applications;
(iv) current/future medical applications of the use of chitin/chitosan in foods;
(v) chemical biology;
(vi) biomaterials;
(vii) medical devices;
(viii) industrial/ pharmaceutical technologies
(ix) drug delivery;
(x) biotechnological applications;
(xi) disease treatment(s);
(xii) challenges/innovative future uses (e.g., in conjunction with other chemical entities);
(xii) computational modelling of chitin, chitosan, and derivatives thereof;
(xiv) combinations of the foregoing and any other additional miscellaneous areas of scientific interest which prospective authors feel that have not been included in this list
Prof. Dr. Babur Z. Chowdhry
Dr. Perry Devo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Chitin
- Chitosan
- biomaterials
- medical applications
- Pharmaceutical Applications
- wound healing
- drug delivery
- tissue regeneration
- chronic inflammation
- qualitative/quantitative analysis
- biotechnological applications
- disease treatment(s)
- computational modelling
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