Plant Polysaccharides as Pharmaceutical Excipients explores innovative techniques and applications of plant-derived polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients. Plant polysaccharides are sustainable, renewable and abundantly available, offering attractive properties in terms of water solubility, swelling ability, non-toxicity and biodegradability. These qualities have resulted in extensive exploration into their applications as excipients in a variety of pharmaceutical dosage forms. This book takes a comprehensive, application-oriented approach, drawing on the very latest research that includes sources, classification and extraction methods of plant polysaccharides. Subsequent chapters focus on plant polysaccharides for individual pharmaceutical applications, enabling the reader to understand their preparation for specific targeted uses.

1. Plant polysaccharides: Sources, classifications and extraction methods2. Biocompatibility of plant polysaccharides3. Properties of plant polysaccharides used as pharmaceutical excipients4. Plant polysaccharides in pharmaceutical tablets5. Plant polysaccharides as suspending agents in pharmaceutical suspensions6. Plant polysaccharides as emulsifiers in pharmaceutical emulsions7. Plant polysaccharides-based in multiple-units for oral drug delivery8. Plant polysaccharides in nanoparticles for drug delivery9. Plant polysaccharides in transdermal drug delivery10. Plant polysaccharides in buccal drug delivery11. Plant polysaccharides in nasal drug delivery12. Plant polysaccharides in ocular drug delivery13. Plant polysaccharides as useful excipients for the preparation of suppository14. Plant polysaccharides in colon-targeting drug delivery15. Plant polysaccharides in pharmaceutical gels16. Plant polysaccharides in pharmaceutical hydrogels17. Plant polysaccharides in formulation coating18. Plant polysaccharides for protein binding19. Plant polysaccharides for drug delivery in wound healing20. Plant polysaccharides for biomedical implants21. Plant polysaccharides for drug delivery in tissue repair22. Future perspectives and challenges of plant polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients