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    Colloids have many applications including in medicines, soaps, water purification, and the rubber industry. Colloidal formulations can exhibit unusual or increased therapeutic properties. Colloids are extensively used to modify pharmaceutical agents' properties like solubility and are used as drug delivery systems including hydrogels, microspheres, microemulsions, and more.

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    Colloids have many applications including in medicines, soaps, water purification, and the rubber industry. Colloidal formulations can exhibit unusual or increased therapeutic properties. Colloids are extensively used to modify pharmaceutical agents' properties like solubility and are used as drug delivery systems including hydrogels, microspheres, microemulsions, and more.

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    Colloids have many applications including in medicines, soaps, water purification, and the rubber industry. Colloidal formulations can exhibit unusual or increased therapeutic properties. Colloids are extensively used to modify pharmaceutical agents' properties like solubility and are used as drug delivery systems including hydrogels, microspheres, microemulsions, and more.

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    COLLOIDS

    Dr. Vijay
    Dept. of Pharm. Sciences
    HNB Garhwal University,
    Srinagar, Uttarakhand

    Dr. Vijay, DOPS, HNB Garhwal University 1


    Applications of Colloids
    Colloids have varied applications. Some of them include:
    • Medicines: Medicines in colloidal form are easily absorbed by the body tissues and hence
    are more effective.
    • Cleansing action of soap: Soap solution is colloidal in nature. It removes the dirt particles
    either by adsorption or by emulsifying the greasy matter sticking to the cloth
    • Purification of water: The precipitation of colloidal impurities present in water can be
    done by adding certain electrolytes like alum etc. The negatively charged colloidal
    particles of impurities get neutralized by the Al3+ ions and settle down and pure water
    can be decanted off.
    • Rubber industry: Latex is a colloidal solution of negatively charged rubber particles. From
    latex, rubber can be obtained by coagulation. Rubber plated articles are prepared by
    depositing negatively charged rubber particles over the article to be rubber plated by
    making that article an anode in a rubber plating bath
    Dr. Vijay, DOPS, HNB Garhwal University 2
    • Colloids formulation exhibits unusal or increased therapeutic properties
    • Colloidal silver chloride, silver iodide and silver protein are effective germicide and do not
    cause the irritation that is the characteristic of ionic silver salts
    • Coarsely powdered sulphur is poorly absorbed when administered orally but the coarser
    form of sulphur is highly absorbed. Sometime deaths also reported
    • Colloidal copper is used in the treatment of cancer
    • Colloidal gold is used as a diagnostic agent for Paresis
    • Colloidal mercury is used in the treatment of Syphilis
    • Proteins are natural colloids and are found in the body as components of muscle, bone and
    skin. They bind with certain drugs and change the pharmacological activity of drugs
    • Naturally occurring plant macromolecules like Starch and Cellulose exist in colloidal state and
    are used as pharmaceutical adjuncts or additives
    • Hydroxyethyl cellulose is used as a Plasma Substitute
    • Colloidal electrolytes are sometimes used to increase solubility, stability and taste of certain
    compounds in aqueous and oily preparations
    Dr. Vijay, DOPS, HNB Garhwal University 3
    • Colloids are extensively used for modifying the properties of pharmaceutical agents:
    • The most common property that is affected is the solubility of a drug
    • However, colloidal forms of many drugs exhibit substantially different properties when
    compared with traditional forms of these drugs
    Colloids are used as drug delivery systems which includes
    • Hydrogels
    • Microspheres
    • Microemulsions
    • Liposomes
    • Micelles
    • Nanoparticles
    • Nanocrystals
    Dr. Vijay, DOPS, HNB Garhwal University 4
    References
    • Martin’s Physical pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (5th edition)
    • Industrial Pharmacy by Lachman
    • www. Google.com
    • Wikipedia
    • RPS

    Dr. Vijay, DOPS, HNB Garhwal University 5

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