Research and development in health care industry is in persistence progression. To make it more patient-friendly or to get maximum benefits from it, special attention to different advanced drug delivery system (ADDS) is employed that delivers the drug at the target site and will be able to sustain/control release of drugs. ADDS should be non-toxic, biodegradable, biocompatible along with desirable showing physicochemical and functional properties. These drug delivery systems can be totally based on polymers, either with natural or synthetic polymers. The molecular weight of polymer can be tuned and different groups of polymers can be modified or substituted with other functional groups. Degree of substitution is also tailored. Cationic starch in recent years is exploited in drug delivery, tissue engineering and biomedicine. Due to their abundant availability, low cost, easy chemical modification, low toxicity, biodegradability and biocompatibility, extensive research is now being carried out. Our present discussion will shed light on the usage of cationic starch in health care system.

Department of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Brno University of Technology Technická 12 61200 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Pharmaceutical Technology Faculty of Pharmacy Universiti Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Department of Pharmaceutical Technology Jadavpur University Kolkata 700032 India

Department of Science and Technology Nanomedicines Research and Development Center Quilmes National University Buenos Aires Argentina

IIUCNN Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Kerala India

INHART International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak 53100 Selangor Malaysia

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