TY - BOOK AU - Mirhane Mostafa Sayed Darwish AU - Wafaa A. Khalil , TI - Characterization and optimization of alginate-chitosan nanoparticles as an insulin carrier / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mirhane Mostafa Sayed Darwish , KW - Alginate KW - Chitosan KW - NPS N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Biophysics; Issued also as CD N2 - Diabetes mellitus is undoubtedly one of the most challenging health problems in the 21st century. It has become the third fatal disease after the cardiovascular-cerebrovascular diseases and cancer (Zhao et al., 2010). Insulin is a protein administered to humans for the treatment of diabetes mellitus to control glucose homeostasis when pancreatic Ý-cells production is not enough to ensure daily needs of this hormone brange et al., 1997 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -