Natural Polymers for Pharmaceutical Applications

<p>In recent years many animal-derived polymers have emerged as an attractive category of naturally derived polymers because of their advantageous physicochemical chemical and biological properties. The important biological properties of these natural polymers derived from animals are biocompatibility and biodegradation. These polymers are generally composed of repeated units of amino acids. Moreover these polymers can be modified physically and/or chemically to improve their biomaterial properties. </p><p>Natural Polymers for Pharmaceutical Applications Volume 3: Animal-Derived Polymers looks at how these polymers can be exploited as pharmaceutical excipients in various pharmaceutical dosage forms like microparticles nanoparticles ophthalmic preparations gels implants etc. The commonly used animal-derived polymers used as pharmaceutical excipients are hyaluronic acid (hyaluronan) albumin collagen gelatin chondroitin etc.</p><p></p>