BioSourced Chitin Nanofibers as Anticancer Drug Delivery Systems

Chitin is a biopolymer that makes up the internal coating of a fungal cell wall, providing reinforcement and resilience. It is biocompatible, biodegradable, and bio-absorbable, with antibacterial and wound-healing specifications as well as minimum immunogenicity. Cancer is described as a wild growth of abnormal cells. Nanotechnology has been applied as drug carriers over the past few years to treat numerous cancers. The main objective of nanomedicine in the treatment of oncological illnesses is to selectively carry the drug just to cancer cells. Up to now, numerous anticancer drugs like doxorubicin (DOX), curcumin (CUR), paclitaxel (PTX) and camptothecin (CPT) have been used in drug delivery structures. 3-D Chitin nanofibers can be applied to deliver anti-cancer drugs in cancer therapy. This book presents the chitin Nano fibrous anti-cancer drug delivery carriers for clinical application of cancer nanomedicine in the future.

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Farnaz-Sadat Fattahi is currently a Biotechnology Researcher in IRAN. She received her BSC and MSC in fiber and textile chemistry from Amir-kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; and Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Her areas of interest include nanostructures for biomedical.