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Gum Arabic Based Multiple Units for Oral Drug Delivery

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Plant Polysaccharides-Based Multiple-Unit Systems for Oral Drug Delivery

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Abstract

GAr is a plant-derived natural polysaccharidic gum, which is originally extracted from Acacia nilotica tree, belonging to the family, Leguminosae (Ali et al. in Food Chem Toxicol 47:1–8, 2009; Dauqan and Abdullah in Am J Appl Sci 10:1270–1279, 2013).

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Nayak, A.K., Hasnain, M.S. (2019). Gum Arabic Based Multiple Units for Oral Drug Delivery. In: Plant Polysaccharides-Based Multiple-Unit Systems for Oral Drug Delivery. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6784-6_3

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