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Authors wish to thank Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, Director, and Dr. G.S. Bhuvaneswar, Head, BMT Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram, for providing facilities. This work was supported by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India through the project “Facility for nano/microparticle based biomaterials – advanced drug delivery systems” #8013, under the Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Research Programme, New Delhi. The authors would also like to thank CSIR for Senior Research Fellowship.

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Sonia, T.A., Sharma, C.P. (2011). Chitosan and Its Derivatives for Drug Delivery Perspective. In: Jayakumar, R., Prabaharan, M., Muzzarelli, R. (eds) Chitosan for Biomaterials I. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2011_117

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