Chakraborty Raja, Kalita Pratap, Sen Saikat
Department of Pharmacy, Assam Down Town University, Panikhaiti, Guwahati, Assam - 781026, India.
Curr Drug Discov Technol. 2019;16(4):355-367. doi: 10.2174/1570163815666181003143732.
Utilization of native starch is increasing globally because of its wide distribution and natural occurrence. Starch is mainly abundant in tubers and food grains. Scientific research on starch is increasing in recent years due to its unique physiochemical and biomedical properties. Native starch is an emerging biopolymer and copolymer in the biomedical and pharmaceutical areas due to its renewability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and relative inexpensiveness. Today, there is an increasing interest in natural starches to design and produce diverse products due to their pertinent structural properties and non-toxicity. Due to these attributes, these natural polymers are becoming functional core materials in the biomedical industry, construction materials, medicine industry, food industry, food packaging, and carrier for active drugs. In this paper, we mainly attempt to analyze the physicochemical attributions and the biomedical applications on native or non-conventional starches obtained from the natural botanical sources.
由于天然淀粉分布广泛且天然存在，其在全球的使用量正在增加。淀粉主要大量存在于块茎和谷物中。近年来，由于淀粉具有独特的物理化学和生物医学特性，对其的科学研究不断增加。天然淀粉因其可再生性、生物相容性、生物降解性和相对低廉的成本，在生物医学和制药领域成为一种新兴的生物聚合物和共聚物。如今，由于天然淀粉具有相关的结构特性和无毒性，人们对设计和生产各种产品的天然淀粉的兴趣与日俱增。由于这些特性，这些天然聚合物正成为生物医学行业、建筑材料、医药行业、食品行业、食品包装以及活性药物载体中的功能性核心材料。在本文中，我们主要试图分析从天然植物来源获得的天然或非常规淀粉的物理化学特性以及生物医学应用。
