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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 3 Issue 1</issue_number>
<issue_period>2012 (January - March)</issue_period>
<title>Pullulan Acetate Nanoparticles Based Delivery System For Hydrophobic Drug </title>
<abstract>Silymarin is having antioxidant and membrane stabilizing property and acts as a defensive material in different toxic forms of liver diseases like liver cirrhosis, alcoholic liver disease. Pullulan is a good water soluble neutral linear polysaccharide consisting of α-1,6 linked maltotriose residues. It is broadly used as a food additive and is considered to be safe for human use. In the present study, silymarin was coated with pullulan acetate nanoparticles (S-PANP'S). The particle size of pullulan acetate (PA) and silymarin loaded pullulan acetate nanoparticles (S-PANP'S) was estimated by photon correlation spectroscopy and the in-vitro release of silymarin was carried out in PBS 7.4 pH; toxicity of the S-PANP'S was studied using zebra fish embryo. This study revealed that pullulan acetate might be useful as a vehicle for anti tumour drugs like silymarin.</abstract>
<authors>B. Santhosh Kumar, M. Ganesh Kumar, L. Suguna, T. P. Sastry And A. B. Mandal</authors>
<keywords>Pullulan-acetate nanoparticles, Silymarin, Solvent evaporation, Toxicity, Zebra fish.</keywords>
<pages>24-32</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
