20.500.12556/RUL-128739 The use of polymer chitosan in intravesical treatment of urinary bladder cancer and infections The most frequent diseases of the urinary bladder are bacterial infections and bladder cancers. For both diseases, very high recurrence rates are characteristic: 50-80% for bladder cancer and more than 50% for bladder infections, causing loss of millions of dollars per year for medical treatment and sick leave. Despite years of searching for better treatment, the prevalence of bladder infections and bladder cancer remains unchanged and is even increasing in recent years. Very encouraging results in treatment of both diseases recently culminated from studies combining biopolymer chitosan with immunotherapy, and chitosan with antibiotics for treatment of bladder cancer and cystitis, respectably. In both pathways of research, the discoveries involving chitosan reached a successful long-lasting cure. The property of chitosan that boosted the effectivity of illness-specific drugs is its ability to enhance the accessibility of these drugs to the very sources of both pathologies that individual treatments without chitosan failed to achieve. Chitosan can thus be recognised as a very promising co-player in treatment of bladder cancer and bacterial cystitis. chitosan biological activity medical applications hitozan biološka dejavnost medicinske aplikacije true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2021-07-27 08:59:38 2021-07-27 08:59:46 2022-09-07 04:16:55 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2018 0 0 V datoteki založnikove različice članka (PDF) je navedena napačna številka članka (625). Prava številka članka (265) je navedena na pristajalni strani članka (URL). (Datum opombe: 28. 7. 2021) 10 str. iss. 3, art. 265 Vol. 10 2018 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 577 2073-4360 10.3390/polym10030265 33675993 RAZ_Erman_Andreja_2018.pdf RAZ_Erman_Andreja_2018.pdf 1 C100E26DD30D8103C6B2FD4691EB4C0F f251e90aa2c1c100ee16ddef55f7ca3e4df46907edfda4f9dde9092cdf021b79 10e22596-eea8-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=145578 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/10/3/265 0 5acd77be-eea8-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=145579 Medicinska fakulteta 0 0 0