Chitosan Used In Pharmaceutical Formulations : A Review

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Publication Type:

Web Article

Source:

(2008)

URL:

http://www.pharmainfo.net/reviews/chitosan-used-in-pharmaceutical-formulations-a-review

Keywords:

Chitosan;Formulations; Excipient; polymers

Abstract:

Excipient has been singing the key roles in all pharmaceutical formulation. From the time when polymer science has urbanized, polymer is one of the majority imperative groups among those excipients.

Attributable to having multitalented natures, polymers are being far and wide acknowledge in pharmaceutical grassland. Chitosan is one of the polymers, which is having countless characters to be a high-quality excipient. Chitosan has been used in the blueprint of may different types of drug carriers for various administration rules such as oral, bucal, nasal, transdermal, parenteral, vaginal, cervical, intrauterine and rectal. It has been proved by formerly completed investigate effort.