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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

2011

Chitosan

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Development Of An Inverse Liquid Chromatographic Technique To Measure Adsorption Of Amino Acid Sorbates Onto Chitosan, Yamama Hafeez May 2011

Development Of An Inverse Liquid Chromatographic Technique To Measure Adsorption Of Amino Acid Sorbates Onto Chitosan, Yamama Hafeez

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Drug delivery is described as the localized sustained delivery of a pharmaceutical agent to the systemic blood circulation and hence to the site of action to produce a desired pharmacological effect [1]. There are three principle ways of drug delivery, first being the injection of the drug loaded on microspheres in this method of drug delivery, microspheres are formed using a combination of ink-jet technology and single emulsion-solvent evaporation techniques. Microspheres of a certain size are produced such as to administer the desired route of administration and the rate of the drug release [1]. Another form of drug delivery commonly …