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 …

[PDF][PDF] Gums and mucilages: versatile excipients for pharmaceutical formulations

GK Jani, DP Shah, VD Prajapati, VC Jain - Asian J Pharm Sci, 2009‏ - Citeseer
Nature has provided us a wide variety of materials to help improve and sustain the health of
all living things either directly or indirectly. In recent years there have been important …

[HTML][HTML] Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Mediate Drought Tolerance and Recovery in Two Contrasting Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) Ecotypes by Regulating Stomatal …

A Boutasknit, M Baslam, M Ait-El-Mokhtar, M Anli… - Plants, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Irregular precipitation and drought caused an increase in tree mortality rates in multiple
forest biomes with alterations in both ecosystem services and carbon balance. Carob …

Xanthan gum–konjac glucomannan blend hydrogel for wound healing

A Alves, SP Miguel, ARTS Araujo, MJ de Jesús Valle… - Polymers, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Hydrogels are considered to be the most ideal materials for the production of wound
dressings since they display a three-dimensional structure that mimics the native …

Pectin as a bioactive polysaccharide–Extracting tailored function from less

L Wicker, Y Kim, MJ Kim, B Thirkield, Z Lin, J Jung - Food Hydrocolloids, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Pectin is a complex structural polysaccharide located in the cell wall and middle lamella of
higher plants. The homogalacturon (HG) regions may be methyl esterified or de-esterified to …

Locust bean gum: exploring its potential for biopharmaceutical applications

M Dionísio, A Grenha - Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied …, 2012‏ - journals.lww.com
Polysaccharides have been finding, in the last decades, very interesting and useful
applications in the biomedical and, specifically, in the biopharmaceutical field. Locust bean …

A review on properties and applications of xanthan gum

S Chaturvedi, S Kulshrestha, K Bhardwaj… - Microbial polymers …, 2021‏ - Springer
Xanthan gum is a hetero-polysaccharide formed by the strains of Xanthomonas spp. It is a
naturally found polysaccharide molecule of high molecular weight maily formed by various …

Nutritional characterisation and bioactive components of commercial carobs flours

A Durazzo, V Turfani, V Narducci, E Azzini, G Maiani… - Food chemistry, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Food industry is interested in the utilisation of legume flours for the improvement the
nutritional quality of cereal based foods. In this context, this research aimed at investigating …

Enhanced intestinal stability and pH sensitive release of quercetin in GIT through gellan gum hydrogels

M Dey, B Ghosh, TK Giri - Colloids and surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The objective of the work was to improve the intestinal stability and pH sensitive release of
quercetin in the gastrointestinal tract. To achieve this aim, novel quercetin loaded pH …

Rheology of dispersions of xanthan gum, locust bean gum and mixed biopolymer gel with silicon dioxide nanoparticles

JRM Kennedy, KE Kent, JR Brown - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Mixed xanthan gum (XG) and locust bean gum (LBG) biopolymers form thermally reversible
gels of interest in tissue engineering and drug delivery. 1% solutions of XG, LBG and 1: 1 …