Low Swelling, Crosslinked Guar and Its Potential Use as Colon-Specific Drug Carrier
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pharmaceutical Research
- Vol. 15 (7) , 1019-1025
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011921925745
Abstract
Purpose. (a) To reduce the swelling properties of guar gum (GG) by crosslinking it with glutaraldehyde (GA), while maintaining its degradation properties in the presence of typical colonic enzymes,...Keywords
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