This clinical study reports that the ingestion of 15 gm of Guar gum daily for a period of one moth decreased the total serum cholesterol level by 9.4% and triglyceride level by 4%.

Following the work carried out on guar gum in our first paper of a series, the "pressure cell" solubilization method was applied to two other less highly substituted galactomannans: locust bean gum (LBG) and tara gum. True molecular solution of the polymers was achieved using appropriate temperature, time, and pressure regimes. The technique of capillary viscometry was used to determine the int...

Information about the thermal degradation of guar gum has been obtained from the time dependence of the viscosity at high temperatures measured using a slit viscometer. The viscosity is related to the molecular weight using previously published relations between the zero shear specific viscosity and the coil overlap parameter in conjunction with the appropriate Mark-Houwink equation. Unlike ani...

chapatti is high consuming bread in the southeast countries of asia that in fresh form has a tender texture but within a few days of storage, becomes inflexible. in this research, the effects of guar and cmc gums at two levels of 0.25 and 0.5% on quality of chapatti bread were investigated. based on results, gum addition in different levels increased moisture and ash contends and improved rheol...

The previously-obtained and characterized hybrid pectin-based beads containing agar-agar and guar gum, as well as sole pectin beads (P, for comparison) were examined for zinc ions sorption and desorption properties. The sorption kinetics and equilibrium in the studied system was described by two kinetic models (pseudo-first- and pseudo-second-order) and two isotherms (Langmuir and Freundlich), ...

The response of the bowel mucosa to enteral formula supplemented with dietary fiber was examined in rats with 30% full-thickness burns. The rats were fed a standard enteral formula without fiber or with one of two types of fiber (insoluble soy fiber or soluble guar gum fiber). Seventy-two hours after burn injury, the mesenteric lymph nodes were excised aseptically for bacterial culturing. Sampl...

The objective of the study was to develop buccal adhesive tablets of Simvastatin using mucoadhesive polymers. Simvastatin has short biological half-life (3hr), high first-pass metabolism and poor oral bioavailability (5%), hence an ideal candidate for buccal delivery system. The tablets were prepared by direct compression technique using xanthan gum, guar gum, chitosan and aloe gum. Aloe gum wa...

This work describes the preparation of new carboxymethyl guar gum-silver nanocomposite (CMGG/Ag NC) by green synthesis method. For this carboxymethyl guar gum was used as a reducing agent as well as stabilizer. The silver nanoparticles obtained were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV–vis spectroscopy, Fourier transfo...

Hydrogel based tablets of Simvastatin was formulated using hydropropyl methyl cellulose(different grades), guar gum and carbopal-934-P with the aim to study of release kinetic, to attain a near zero order release and to increase the bioavalability upto 95%. In-vitro dissolution studies were carried out using USP type 2 dissolution test apparatus. The release of drug followed a typical Higuchian...

the present investigation was aimed at developing a novel colon targeted system of lornoxicam based on the use of a combination of ph dependent system (to prevent the premature release of drug in the upper git) and enzymatically degradation system (to ensure the specificity of drug release in the colon). the drug loaded guar gum microspheres prepared by emulsification cross-linking method were ...