“…Chitosan is a polymer well known for its attractive properties, such as biocompatibility, biodegradability and bioadhesivity (Gulbake and Jain, 2012). Chitosomes maintained the positive properties of liposomes, but showed greater stability and provided longer residence times in the gastrointestinal tract, in virtue of their mucoadhesion properties (Takeuchi et al, 2003(Takeuchi et al, , 2005Werle and Takeuchi, 2009;Manconi et al, 2010Manconi et al, , 2013Shao et al, 2015;Caddeo et al, 2016).…”