Enhancing Aqueous Solubility and Anticancer Efficacy of Oligochitosan-Folate-Cisplatin Conjugates through Oleic Acid Grafting for Targeted Nanomedicine Development

Oligochitosan is an anticancer water-soluble biomaterial. Conjugating cisplatin (anticancer drug) and folic acid (targeting ligand) with oligochitosan reduces its aqueous solubility, thus requiring excessive drug dose to be biologically active and organic instead of aqueous processing into nanomedic...

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Published in:ACS Omega
Main Author: Muniandy M.T.; Chee C.F.; Rahman N.A.; Wong T.W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society 2025
Online Access:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85215545408&doi=10.1021%2facsomega.4c03529&partnerID=40&md5=3e880c2843944ef1f1868a6be8147681