Non‐conventional starch nanoparticles for drug delivery applications

TL;DR: A review of the use of biopolymeric nanoparticles of animal, plant, algal, fungal, and bacterial origin as a sustainable material for potential use as drug delivery systems is presented in this paper .

TL;DR: The current study focuses on starch nanoparticle manufacturing, characterization, and emerging applications and focuses on Nano-precipitation and ultra-sonication.

TL;DR: The limitation of conventional drug delivery systems such as specificity, bioavailability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and parenteral administration have been overcome with the advent of nanomaterials as cargo for targeted drug delivery to combat communicable and non-communicable diseases as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article, hydrophobic beeswax emulsions were incorporated into hydrophilic starch films to modify physical, mechanical and thermal properties of the films, which significantly reduced tensile strength and elongation and increased elastic modulus.

TL;DR: It was concluded that although the pharmacological properties of chayote are currently well-established, only a few reports have been conducted on the isolation and identification of individual chemical constituents, and similarly,only a few in vivo studies have been carried out to assess their biological efficacy.

TL;DR: Starch from four cultivars (CDC Xena, CDC Flip 97-133C, CDC 418-59, CDC ICC 12512-9) of chickpea (cicer arietinum L.) grown in Saskatchewan, Canada was isolated and variability in composition, morphology, molecular structure and physicochemical properties was evaluated.

TL;DR: The addition of C and CN in the starch films improved some mechanical, barrier, and functional properties, and higher values of tensile strength and elastic modulus were determined in the films reinforced with CN.