Plant Polysaccharides as Pharmaceutical Excipients

Plant Polysaccharides as Pharmaceutical Excipients explores innovative techniques and applications of plant-derived polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients. Plant polysaccharides are sustainable, renewable, and abundantly available, offering attractive properties in terms of water solubility, swelling ability, non-toxicity, and biodegradability, and this has resulted in extensive exploration into their application as excipients in a variety of pharmaceutical dosage forms. This book takes a comprehensive, application-oriented approach, drawing on the very latest research. The book begins by introducing the sources, classification, and extraction methods of plant polysaccharides, before presenting in-depth coverage of biocompatibility and properties. Subsequent chapters focus on plant polysaccharides for individual pharmaceutical applications, enabling the reader to understand their preparation for specific targeted uses. Throughout the book, the information is supported by illustrations, chemical structures, flow charts, and data tables, to provide a clear understanding. Finally, future perspectives and challenges are reviewed and discussed. This is a highly valuable resource to researchers and advanced students in polymer science, pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, and materials chemistry, as well as scientists and R&D professionals with an interest in pharmaceutical formulations and regulations, and development of innovative plant-derived materials. Explains sources, classification, extraction methods, and biocompatibility of plant polysaccharides Guides the reader through properties and preparation methods of plant polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients Covers a broad range of cutting-edge applications, with each chapter targeting a specific use