Although natural gums and their derivatives are used widely in pharmaceutical dosage
forms, their use as biodegradable polymeric materials to deliver bioactive agents has been …

It is necessary to have excipients with excellent functional properties to compensate for the
poor mechanical properties and low aqueous solubility of the emerging active ingredients …

This work was intended to develop a new cross-linked gelatinized starch–xanthan gum
hydrogel system, to characterize the properties of the new material, and to explore its …

The swelling and drug release behaviour of xanthan gum matrix tablets were studied using
three drugs having different properties, ie, caffeine as a soluble neutral drug, indomethacin …

Pharmaceutical compositions for orally delivering a therapeutically effective amount of a
drug to the colon without significant release of the drug in the upper GI tract after oral …

4,059,686 11/1977 Tanaka et al..... 424/19 position for the oral cavity or “pharmaceutical oral
patch'4,386,106 5/1983 Merritt et al..... 426/5 that adheres to hard dental Surfaces, Such as …

The objective of this investigation was to improve the stability of CLA and to allow for its
controlled release by encapsulating it with combinations of octenyl-succinic anhydride …

The present study was conducted to investigate the utilization of xanthan-grafted copolymer
of acrylamide (AAm) as a controlled release (CR) matrix for antihypertensive drugs such as …

The advantages of controlled release products are well known in the pharmaceutical field
and include the ability to maintain a desired blood level of a medicament over a …

The effect of ionic and non-ionic excipients and additives as modulators of swelling and
erosion kinetics and verapamil HCl release from guar-based matrix tablets was investigated …