title: Isolation and Evaluation of Mucilage of Adansonia digitata Linn as a Suspending Agent.
abstract: Natural excipients can serve as alternative to synthetic products because of local accessibility, biodegradability, eco-friendly nature and cost effectiveness as compared to synthetic products. Therefore, it is a current need to explore natural excipients that can be used as an effective alternative excipient for the formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Adansonia digitata (Malvaceae) has been traditionally used as febrifuge, antiasthmatic and also in the treatment of dysentery, smallpox, and measles. Reports have indicated that mucilage of the leaves of the plant is edible and nontoxic; hence, the present study is an attempt of isolation and evaluation of mucilage obtained from leaves of Adansonia digitata as suspending agent. Various physicochemical as well as suspending agent properties of mucilage were studied. Mucilage obtained from leaves has shown comparable results with sodium carboxy methyl cellulose.
authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
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authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Deshmukh
authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
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authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
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authors.affiliation: Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Pimpri, Pune, 411018, India.
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authors.lastname: Bhujbal
authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
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authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
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authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Hon.Shri Babanrao Pachpute Vichardhara Trust's GOI, College of Pharmacy, Kashti, Tal-Shrigonda, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra 414701, India.
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