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PREPARATION AND EVALUATION OF ALGINATE BEADS: A REVIEW
*Akbal Ahmad, Abadhesh Niranjan, Kanchan Gangwar, Nikhil Ranjan
ABSTRACT
The objective of this review is to elaborate the potential of alginate beads as a biopolymer within the formulation development and its applications. There is a growing trend in pharmaceutical in food industry to avoid the tough condition within the preparation for administration to the body or for the storage purpose because it induce the side effects, instability or loss of therapeutic effect of the medicament. The alginate beads could also be a flexible functional biomaterial for viscosity enhancement, stabilizer, matrixing agent, encapsulation polymer, bioadhesive and film former in transdermal and transmucosal drug delivery. This review includes the preparation, properties, compendial standards, methods utilized for preparation of drug delivery systems using sodium alginate and its applications.
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