Pharmaceutical applications of various natural gums, mucilages and their modified forms

VD Prajapati, GK Jani, NG Moradiya… - Carbohydrate polymers, 2013 - Elsevier
A large number of plant based pharmaceutical excipients are available today. Gums and
mucilages are the most commonly available plant ingredients with a wide range of …

Antimicrobial gum based hydrogels as adsorbents for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants

S Ahmad, MS Tanweer, TA Mir, M Alam, S Ikram… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
A variety of issues, such as those concerning the environment, economics, sustainability,
biocompatibility and biodegradability have prompted an ever-increasing demand for …

Gums' based delivery systems: Review on cashew gum and its derivatives

AJ Ribeiro, FRL de Souza, JMNA Bezerra… - Carbohydrate …, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of delivery systems using natural polymers such as gums offers distinct
advantages, such as, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and cost effectiveness. Cashew …

Tragacanth gum-based nanogel as a superparamagnetic molecularly imprinted polymer for quercetin recognition and controlled release

K Hemmati, A Masoumi, M Ghaemy - Carbohydrate polymers, 2016 - Elsevier
A highly selective magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer (MMIP) with core–shell structure
has been synthesized by a sol–gel process composed of Tragacanth Gum (TG) crosslinker …

Synthesis and characterization of karaya gum-g-poly (acrylic acid) hydrogels and in vitro release of hydrophobic quercetin

S Bashir, YY Teo, S Ramesh, K Ramesh - Polymer, 2018 - Elsevier
Interest in the development of new materials based on natural polysaccharides has grown
exponentially in the last decade. Therefore, polysaccharide hydrogels gain striking attention …

Synthesis of new thermo/pH sensitive drug delivery systems based on tragacanth gum polysaccharide

K Hemmati, M Ghaemy - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, new pH/temperature responsive graft copolymers were synthesized based on
natural Tragacanth Gum (TG) carbohydrate and their controlled drug release was …

Development and evaluation of sodium alginate–polyacrylamide graft–co-polymer-based stomach targeted hydrogels of famotidine

R Tripathi, B Mishra - Aaps Pharmscitech, 2012 - Springer
In the present study, grafting technology has been used to develop novel grafted hydrogel
beads as controlled drug delivery carriers. The chemical crosslinking and grafting of …

Study of a cross-linked hydrogel of Karaya gum and Starch as a controlled drug delivery system

S Sethi, BS Kaith, M Kaur, N Sharma… - Journal of Biomaterials …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
A cross-linked hydrogel was synthesized using a hybrid backbone of karaya gum starch and
grafted with polyacrylic acid. It showed a maximum swelling ratio (SR) of 30.5 g/g at pH 10 …

Karaya gum-graft-poly (2-(dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate) gel: an efficient adsorbent for removal of ionic dyes from water

PB Krishnappa, V Badalamoole - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present study, a novel hydrogel based on the polysaccharide,'Karaya gum'has been
synthesised by graft copolymerization and evaluated as an adsorbent for the removal of …

Naturapolyceutics: the science of utilizing natural polymers for drug delivery

NC Ngwuluka, NA Ochekpe, OI Aruoma - polymers, 2014 - mdpi.com
Naturapolyceutics defines the emerging science and technology platform that blends natural
polymers and pharmaceutics for the design and development of drug delivery systems …