diff --git a/langchain/document_loaders/dataframe.py b/langchain/document_loaders/dataframe.py
index 9c6d6081..8535a1b6 100644
--- a/langchain/document_loaders/dataframe.py
+++ b/langchain/document_loaders/dataframe.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 """Load from Dataframe object"""
-from typing import List
-
-import pandas as pd
+from typing import Any, List
 
 from langchain.docstore.document import Document
 from langchain.document_loaders.base import BaseLoader
@@ -10,8 +8,14 @@ from langchain.document_loaders.base import BaseLoader
 class DataFrameLoader(BaseLoader):
     """Load Pandas DataFrames."""
 
-    def __init__(self, data_frame: pd.DataFrame, page_content_column: str = "text"):
+    def __init__(self, data_frame: Any, page_content_column: str = "text"):
         """Initialize with dataframe object."""
+        import pandas as pd
+
+        if not isinstance(data_frame, pd.DataFrame):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Expected data_frame to be a pd.DataFrame, got {type(data_frame)}"
+            )
         self.data_frame = data_frame
         self.page_content_column = page_content_column
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 199d2750..0c77bce5 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -4515,55 +4515,6 @@ files = [
     {file = "packaging-23.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b6ad297f8907de0fa2fe1ccbd26fdaf387f5f47c7275fedf8cce89f99446cf97"},
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "pandas"
-version = "1.5.3"
-description = "Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics"
-category = "main"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.8"
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-    {file = "pandas-1.5.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:74a3fd7e5a7ec052f183273dc7b0acd3a863edf7520f5d3a1765c04ffdb3b0b1"},
-]
-
-[package.dependencies]
-numpy = [
-    {version = ">=1.20.3", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""},
-    {version = ">=1.21.0", markers = "python_version >= \"3.10\""},
-    {version = ">=1.23.2", markers = "python_version >= \"3.11\""},
-]
-python-dateutil = ">=2.8.1"
-pytz = ">=2020.1"
-
-[package.extras]
-test = ["hypothesis (>=5.5.3)", "pytest (>=6.0)", "pytest-xdist (>=1.31)"]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "pandocfilters"
 version = "1.5.0"
@@ -5658,7 +5609,7 @@ dev = ["atomicwrites (==1.2.1)", "attrs (==19.2.0)", "coverage (==6.5.0)", "hatc
 name = "pytz"
 version = "2022.7.1"
 description = "World timezone definitions, modern and historical"
-category = "main"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -8537,4 +8488,4 @@ llms = ["anthropic", "cohere", "openai", "nlpcloud", "huggingface_hub", "manifes
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"
-content-hash = "cf918ff1bc768cf1ef9bc611f00f278ada91d23d1d574dfeba4d1f3f7b5bdb4a"
+content-hash = "4986fe2bbc54d9c31181a843f7b3e0a9b1b46ad833fc24e52f1c181fe2ba54f5"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 15ca7b8c..417ecec9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ SQLAlchemy = "^1"
 requests = "^2"
 PyYAML = ">=5.4.1"
 numpy = "^1"
-pandas = ">=1.5.3"
 faiss-cpu = {version = "^1", optional = true}
 wikipedia = {version = "^1", optional = true}
 elasticsearch = {version = "^8", optional = true}
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests/document_loader/test_dataframe.py b/tests/integration_tests/document_loaders/test_dataframe.py
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/unit_tests/document_loader/test_dataframe.py
rename to tests/integration_tests/document_loaders/test_dataframe.py