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Recent advances of chitosan nanoparticles as drug carriers

Jun Jie Wang1, Zhao Wu Zeng, Ren Zhong Xiao

  • 1Research Center for Biomedicine and Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.

International Journal of Nanomedicine
|May 19, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
applicationchitosan nanoparticledrug delivery systemmodificationpreparation

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