Pectin is an important polysaccharide with applications in foods, Pharmaceuticals, and a
number of other industries. Its importance in the food sector lies in its ability to form gel in the …

Natural polysaccharides are now extensively used for the development of solid dosage
forms for delivery of drug to the colon. The rationale for the development of a polysaccharide …

Chitosan, a natural polymer obtained by alkaline deacetylation of chitin, is non-toxic,
biocompatible, and biodegradable. These properties make chitosan a good candidate for …

Purpose. Although oral delivery has become a widely accepted route of administration of
therapeutic drugs, the gastrointestinal tract presents several formidable barriers to drug …

Pectin, a naturally occurring polysaccharide, has in recent years gained increasingly in
importance. The benefits of natural pectin are also more and more appreciated by scientists …

Drugs such as immunosuppressants and glucocorticoids used for the treatment of
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have certain troubling side effects. Polysaccharide-based …

Pectin-derived matrices are now being examined and tested for controlled drug delivery.
Pectin is intact in the upper gastrointestinal tract and degraded by colonic microflora. The …

The authors firstly review the literature dealing with drug absorption sites in the
gastrointestinal tract. Descriptions are given of the methods used in determining the location …

Targeting pharmaceutical drugs to the colon makes it possible to guarantee local or
systemic drug delivery to this site. To deliver the compounds in a non-degraded form to the …

Colon targeted drug delivery has the potential to deliver bioactive agents for the treatment of
a variety of colonic diseases and to deliver proteins and peptides to the colon for their …