Table of Contents
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
EFFECT OF CHITOSAN ON TIGHT JUNCTION PERMEABILITY
CHITOSAN INDUCES DESQUAMATION OF UROTHELIAL CELLS
CHITOSAN AND TREATMENT OF BACTERIAL CYSTITIS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX
The Use of Chitosan in Basic Studies and Clinical Application in Urinary Bladder Epithelium
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Andreja Erman and Peter Veranic
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU
Series: Biotechnology in Agriculture, Industry and Medicine
BISAC: SCI010000
Chitosan is a cationic polysaccharide mainly used as an absorption enhancer. Its known low toxicity for most tissues gave it a wide applicability in the local delivery of pharmaceutics to selected tissues. The positive charge of the chitosan enable it to attach to the mainly negatively charged proteoglycans that cover apical surface of most epithelial cells and allow a gradual release of the drugs trapped in this polysaccharide cage. The intravesical application of chitosan to urinary bladder recently revealed an unpredicted deteriorating effect on superficial epithelial cells. This book examines the current understanding of the effects of chitosan on urinary bladder epithelial cells. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)
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