Antimicrobial, anticancer drug carrying properties of biopolymers-based nanocomposites-A mini review.

Antimicrobial, anticancer drug carrying properties of biopolymers-based nanocomposites-A mini review. Curr Pharm Des. 2018 Nov 20;: Authors: Saravanakumar K, Ali DM, Kathiresan K, Wang MH Abstract Biopolymers are ubiquitous in biomedical and healthcare application. Its nanocomposites have gained the more attention as antimicrobials, drug carrier, sensors, disease diagnosis, tissue engineering, wound healing and cancer therapy. These biopolymer composites are efficient in holding, protect and releasing the bioactive drugs such as pharmaceutics, nutraceuticals, enzymes and probiotics. Several studies are revealed that polymer based drug delivery system in cancer therapy and microbial treatments so on. However, this mini review emphasized the source, extraction, and characterizations of the biopolymers and their use in the fabrication of various drug or metals based nanocomposites followed by its utilization as drug carrier or drug to treat the various diseases such as antimicrobial infections and cancer. Keywords: polymers: drug delivery system, antimicrobials, anticancer agents, drug carrier. PMID: 30465496 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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