Preparation of Hydroxyethylacrylate grafted carboxymethyl cellulose and their use as drug carrier

Cellulose ethers were described theoretically, first, in the year 1905 and their preparation was first studied and published by Chowdhury 1. The sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose is awater soluble cellulose ether also known as cellulose gum, sodium cellulose glycolate or only carboxymethyl cellulose.Carboxymethyl cellulose has colloidal, binding, thickening, absorbing, stabilizing and film-forming properties, because ofwhich it finds applications in the food, personal care,detergent, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, oilfield, printing and dyeing, and paper industries2. Carboxymethyl cellulose is usedin the biomedical field for applications such as preventing postoperative adherences and epidural scarring