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Colonic Bacterial Enzymes: Pharmaceutical Significance and Applications

Colonic Bacterial Enzymes: Pharmaceutical Significance and Applications
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Author(s): Srushti M. Tambe (Bombay College of Pharmacy, India)and Namita D. Desai (Bombay College of Pharmacy, India)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 29
Source title: Research Advancements in Pharmaceutical, Nutritional, and Industrial Enzymology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shashi Lata Bharati (North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, India)and Pankaj Kumar Chaurasia (LS College Muzaffarpur, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5237-6.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter reviews various enzymes produced by the colonic microflora and their utilization in the development of pharmaceutical dosage forms to achieve colon-specific drug delivery. This chapter discusses the applications of colonic bacterial enzymes in order to surrogate colonic conditions in vivo so as to evaluate in vitro drug release from microbially triggered/enzymatically triggered colon-specific drug delivery systems. This chapter also discusses different methods to produce colonic bacterial enzymes as well as use of probiotics as a source to produce colonic bacterial enzymes.

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