title: Phosphorylation of psyllium seed polysaccharide and its characterization.
abstract: Psyllium is widely used as a medicinally active natural polysaccharide for treating conditions like constipation, diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis and colon cancer. Studies have been performed to characterize and modify the polysaccharide obtained from psyllium seed husk and to evaluate its use as a pharmaceutical excipient, but no studies have been performed to evaluate the properties of the polysaccharide present in psyllium seeds. The present study focuses on phosphorylation of psyllium seed polysaccharide (PPS) using sodium tri-meta phosphate as the cross-linking agent. The modified phosphorylated psyllium seed polysaccharide was then evaluated for physicochemical properties, rheological properties, spectral analysis, thermal analysis, crosslinking density and acute oral toxicity studies. The modified polysaccharide (PhPPS) has a high swelling index due to which it can be categorized as a hydrogel. The percent increase in swelling of PhPPS as compared to PPS was found to be 90.26%. The PPS & PhPPS mucilages of all strengths were found to have shear thinning properties. These findings are suggestive of the potential use of PhPPS as gelling & suspending agent. PhPPS was found to have a mucoadhesive property which was comparable with carbopol.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, AISSMS College of Pharmacy, Near RTO, Kennedy Road, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India. Electronic address: monicarp_6@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Monica R P
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, AISSMS College of Pharmacy, Near RTO, Kennedy Road, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Deepa U
authors.initials: DU
authors.lastname: Warrier
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, AISSMS College of Pharmacy, Near RTO, Kennedy Road, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Snehal R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Gaikwad
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, AISSMS College of Pharmacy, Near RTO, Kennedy Road, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Prachi M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Shevate
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002152:Calorimetry, Differential Scanning; D051379:Mice; D010766:Phosphorylation; D053149:Plant Gums / Q000737:chemistry; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011620:Psyllium / Q000737:chemistry*; D012212:Rheology; D012639:Seeds / Q000737:chemistry*; D012995:Solubility; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D023382:Toxicity Tests, Acute; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D053149:Plant Gums; D011134:Polysaccharides; D011620:Psyllium
keywords: Mucoadhesion; Phosphorylation; Psyllium seeds; Rheology; Swelling index