Application of Gellan Gum as a Biomedical Polymer details key topics and fundamental aspects of gellan gum and its biomedical applications in drug delivery, proteins and peptides delivery, cell delivery, tissue engineering, wound dressings and enzyme immobilizations in developing high quality products. Sections introduce gellan gum, its source, production and gelation mechanism, discuss biomedical materials, and provides ways it can be used for biomedical applications. The book also examines the used of gellan gum as pharmaceutical excipients for drug delivery. Future developments and challenges round out the book's coverage.
With contributions for an international group of experts, this book is a useful reference for scientists, researchers and those in industry engaged in biomedical product development using natural polysaccharides.

• Discusses gellan gum-based materials such as hydrogels and nanosystems in biomedical applications
• Describes gellan gum application in areas like tissue engineering, wound dressing, protein and peptide delivery, and as pharmaceutical excipients in drug delivery
• Offers chapter contributions on gellan gum and its application from an international group of experts in research and industry

Introduction1. Gellan gum: Source, production, and gelation mechanism2. Impact of environmental conditions on the preparation and functionality of gellan gum3. Sol-gel behaviour of gellan gum and its applications in biomedical industry4. Biomedical properties of gellan gumBiomedical materials5. Gellan gum-based biomedical gels6. Gellan gum-based hydrogels as useful biomedical material7. Gellan gum-based biocomposites8. Gellan gum-based nanocomposite hydrogel9. Gellan gum-based nanosystems for biomedical applications10. Cross-linked gellan gum for biomedical applications11. Grafted-gellan gum for biomedical applicationsBiomedical applications12. Tissue engineering applications of gellan gum13. Gellan gum-based wound dressings14. Cell encapsulation and delivery using gellan gum15. Protein and peptide delivery using gellan gum16. Uses of gellan gum for nutrient delivery17. Uses of gellan gum for growth factor deliveryPharmaceutical excipients18. Uses of gellan gum in pharmaceutical tablets19. Gellan gum-based microparticles and beads for sustained drug delivery20. Nanoformulations of gellan gum for improved drug delivery21. Gellan gum-based in situ gels for drug delivery22. Gellan gum-based nasal formulations23. Gellan gum-based ocular formulations24. Gellan gum-based dermatological formulations25. Gellan gum-based gastroretentive systems26. Ionically-gelled gellan gum-based systems for controlled therapeutic release27. Gellan gum-based interpenetrating polymer networks for sustained release drug delivery28. Gellan gum-based polyelectrolyte complexes for sustained release drug deliveryOther Topics29. Future perspectives and challenges of plant polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients