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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2014 Feb 21;35(14):4382–4389. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.01.078

Table 2.

Experimental design for protein release studies: Effect of particle size

Nominal
size
Chitosan
conc.
Precipitant
salt
Protein Salt addition
rate
Actual
Mean Size
(nm)
Protein
loading
efficiency (%)
300nm 0.5 mg/ml Na2SO4 FITC-BSA 8 ml/min 318.2±11 58.1±3.7
1μm 3 mg/ml Na2SO4 FITC-BSA 1 ml/min 1133±54.1 83.5±8.3
3μm 5 mg/ml Na2SO4 FITC-BSA 0.2 ml/min 2871±216 96.6±0.6