Saquib Hasnain

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0323918158

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RM170

English

Application of Gellan Gum As a Biomedical Polymer

2024

Elsevier Science & Technology

Materials Science / General, Biotechnology, Biomedical

Technology & Engineering, Medical

Application of Gellan Gum as a Biomedical Polymer details key topics and fundamental aspects of gellan gum and its biomedical applications in drug delivery, proteins and peptides delivery, cell delivery, tissue engineering, wound dressings and enzyme immobilizations in developing high quality products. Sections introduce gellan gum, its source, production and gelation mechanism, discuss biomedical materials, and provides ways it can be used for biomedical applications. The book also examines the used of gellan gum as pharmaceutical excipients for drug delivery. Future developments and challenges round out the book's coverage. With contributions for an international group of experts, this book is a useful reference for scientists, researchers and those in industry engaged in biomedical product development using natural polysaccharides., Application of Gellan Gum as a Biomedical Polymer details key topics and fundamental aspects of gellan gum and its biomedical applications in drug delivery, proteins and peptides delivery, cell delivery, tissue engineering, wound dressings, and enzyme immobilizations in developing high-quality products. This book begins with an overview of gellan gum, its sources, properties, and targeted applications. It discusses gellan gum-based biomedical materials such as hydrogels, microspheres, nanosystems, and cross-linked gellan gum. This book goes on to delve into different applications of gellan gum for therapeutic use and examines the usage of gellan gum as pharmaceutical excipients for drug delivery. With contributions from an international group of experts, this book is a useful reference for scientists, researchers, and those in industry engaged in biomedical product development using natural polysaccharides. Key Features Discusses gellan gum-based materials in biomedical applications, Describes the use of gellan gum for therapeutic applications such as in wound dressings, for protein and peptide delivery, and in tropical medicine, Examines the use of gellan gum as pharmaceutical excipients in the preparations of improved and sustained drug delivery systems

Introduction 1. Gellan gum: Source, production, and gelation mechanism 2. Impact of environmental conditions on the preparation and functionality of gellan gum 3. Sol-gel behaviour of gellan gum and its applications in biomedical industry 4. Biomedical properties of gellan gum Biomedical materials 5. Gellan gum-based biomedical gels 6. Gellan gum-based hydrogels as useful biomedical material 7. Gellan gum-based biocomposites 8. Gellan gum-based nanocomposite hydrogel 9. Gellan gum-based nanosystems for biomedical applications 10. Cross-linked gellan gum for biomedical applications 11. Grafted-gellan gum for biomedical applications Biomedical applications 12. Tissue engineering applications of gellan gum 13. Gellan gum-based wound dressings 14. Cell encapsulation and delivery using gellan gum 15. Protein and peptide delivery using gellan gum 16. Uses of gellan gum for nutrient delivery 17. Uses of gellan gum for growth factor delivery Pharmaceutical excipients 18. Uses of gellan gum in pharmaceutical tablets 19. Gellan gum-based microparticles and beads for sustained drug delivery 20. Nanoformulations of gellan gum for improved drug delivery 21. Gellan gum-based in situ gels for drug delivery 22. Gellan gum-based nasal formulations 23. Gellan gum-based ocular formulations 24. Gellan gum-based dermatological formulations 25. Gellan gum-based gastroretentive systems 26. Ionically-gelled gellan gum-based systems for controlled therapeutic release 27. Gellan gum-based interpenetrating polymer networks for sustained release drug delivery 28. Gellan gum-based polyelectrolyte complexes for sustained release drug delivery Other Topics 29. Future perspectives and challenges of plant polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients

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