Xylan in drug delivery: A review of its engineered structures and biomedical applications.

Silvana Cartaxo da Costa Urtiga, Henrique Rodrigues Marcelino, Eryvaldo Sócrates Tabosa do Egito, Elquio Eleamen Oliveira

European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V 2020 Jun

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Xylan, an abundant biopolymer mainly extracted from plants and algae, is commonly studied for textile, food and biomedical applications. In this review, different approaches to obtain xylan-based products for drug delivery purposes were described. Investigations about xylan-based films, micro- and nanostructure, with the ability or not to swell (hydrogels), developed for biomedical applications, were summarized. Furthermore, a section on colon drug delivery and the methods that have been developed for the evaluation of these systems were presented. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Silvana Cartaxo da Costa Urtiga, Henrique Rodrigues Marcelino, Eryvaldo Sócrates Tabosa do Egito, Elquio Eleamen Oliveira. Xylan in drug delivery: A review of its engineered structures and biomedical applications. European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V. 2020 Jun;151:199-208