Sentences with phrase «cyclodextrin as»

The scientists ran a sample of BPA - contaminated water through both the new porous cyclodextrins as well as three existing activated carbons and two nonporous cyclodextrin polymers.

Not exact matches

Now Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and colleagues have devised a cage made of gamma - cyclodextrin, a ring of glucose molecules often used as a food additive (Angewandte Chemie, DOI: 10.1002 / anie.201002343).

Doughnut - shaped cyclodextrin molecules used as catalysts, enzyme mimics, drug carriers and food stabilisers, have been studied for more than a decade.

Vtesse is currently running a late - stage clinical trial of the drug, a large sugar molecule known as a cyclodextrin, in which it is injected by lumbar puncture into the spinal fluid of children with the disease (see «Why are people fighting over a promising treatment for a fatal childhood disease»).

(One of Hempel's daughters suffered a stroke after ICV administration of cyclodextrin, although not as part of the NIH trial; it was being administered separately under a compassionate use protocol approved by the Food and Drug Administration.)

The Johns Hopkins team used a microshell made of a sugar - based polymer called cyclodextrin to protect the 3BrPA drug molecules from disintegrating early and to guard healthy tissue from the drug's toxic effects, such as weight loss, hypothermia and lethal hypoglycemic shock.

The star - shaped block co-polymer structures consist of a central beta - cyclodextrin core to which multiple «arms» — as many as 21 linear block co-polymers — are covalently bonded.

Since cyclodextrin does not cross into the brain from the bloodstream, the drug must be in injected into the spinal column by lumbar puncture, an outpatient procedure often referred to as a spinal tap.

Cyclodextrin is a sugar molecule that long has been used as a minor ingredient in many other pharmaceuticals because it helps drug compounds dissolve in water.

Cyclodextrin, more formally known as 2 - hydroxypropyl - beta - cyclodextrin, is the active ingredient in the air fresheCyclodextrin, more formally known as 2 - hydroxypropyl - beta - cyclodextrin, is the active ingredient in the air freshecyclodextrin, is the active ingredient in the air freshener Febreze.

«Cyclodextrin is being developed as a drug for NPC, but it currently is being tested in the laboratory in other much more common conditions, including atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

The reason alpha - cyclodextrins lower postprandial glucose and cholesterol, and the reason they got relatively easy approval for use as food additives even in the EU, is because they aren't absorbed systemically: they work largely as soluble fiber does, binding excreted bile acids and slowing absorption of glucose.

α - Cyclodextrin has been authorized for use as a dietary fiber in the European Union since 2008.

Dmitry: as the paper itself notes, the most likely mechanism for the ability of hydroxypropyl - β - cyclodextrin to lower Aβ burden in the mouse model is AD finding is by normalizing membrane cholesterol content and reducing the appearance of abnormal cathepsin D - positive lysosomes, leading to reduced beta - secretase cleavage of APP and an upregulation of genes involved in cholesterol trafficking and Aβ clearance.

Cyclodextrins have great potential as Protective Agents of Protein Aggregation.