Design of dietary fiber psyllium-sterculia gum based hydrogels for use in controlled drug delivery applications

Abstract

The dietary fibers psyllium-sterculia gum have therapeutic roles in diarrhea, therefore, herein this work, hydrogels were prepared for use as drug delivery devices (DDD) for ornidazole. Grafted copolymers were characterized with SEM, FTIR, EDAX and swelling studies. The drug release was observed in sustained manner with Fickian diffusion. Overall, these hydrogels can act as DDD with enhanced potential due to therapeutic role of psyllium-sterculia and slow release of ornidazole.