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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 6 | Page : 689-696 |
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Polymers for colon targeted drug delivery
H Rajpurohit, P Sharma, S Sharma, A Bhandari
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jodhpur National University, Jodhpur - 342 008, India
Correspondence Address:
H Rajpurohit
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jodhpur National University, Jodhpur - 342 008
India
DOI: 10.4103/0250-474X.84576 PMID: 21969739
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The colon targeted drug delivery has a number of important implications in the field of pharmacotherapy. Oral colon targeted drug delivery systems have recently gained importance for delivering a variety of therapeutic agents for both local and systemic administration. Targeting of drugs to the colon via oral administration protect the drug from degradation or release in the stomach and small intestine. It also ensures abrupt or controlled release of the drug in the proximal colon. Various drug delivery systems have been designed that deliver the drug quantitatively to the colon and then trigger the release of drug. This review will cover different types of polymers which can be used in formulation of colon targeted drug delivery systems. |
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