Sentences with phrase «drug delivery by»

Research Paper Placenta - specific drug delivery by trophoblast - targeted nanoparticles in mice Baozhen Zhang, Lunbo Tan, Yan Yu, Baobei Wang, Zhilong Chen, Jinyu Han, Mengxia Li, Jie Chen, Tianxia Xiao, Balamurali K Ambati, Lintao Cai, Qing Yang, Nihar R Nayak, Jian Zhang, Xiujun Fan Theranostics 2018; 8 (10): 2765 - 2781.

Investigation of Strategies for Drug Delivery by Combination Targeting of Nanocarriers to Multiple Epitopes or Receptors.

Ultrasound improves drug delivery by a mechanism known as transient cavitation.

Then they administered a carefully calculated sedative with a dart gun developed for large whale drug delivery by Paxarms NZ in collaboration with Dr. Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI and a marine mammal veterinarian.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

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That has been my initial impression of a new drug - delivery system, called the Medici, which is made by Intarcia Therapeutics.

Sales growth was led by food safety, health information systems, and medical consumables; drug delivery declined.

• Oculis, an Iceland - based developer of a solubilizing nanoparticle drug delivery platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding co-led by Brunner Ventures and Silfuberg.

While some police departments have opted for a nasal spray version of the drug, Orland Park officers will use injections, the same delivery method used by Orland Fire Protection District paramedics, he said.

I joke with my husband that I saved us a TON of money by having a natural delivery, no drugs; breast feeding the babies, no formula, and letting the kids go naked most of the day while we are home - saves on diapers and laundry (we live in a tropical climate, so it is easy to do this!)

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Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Haro Hartounian, a specialist in drug - delivery technologies at DepoTech in San Diego, predicts that microspheres will prove more potent than traditional booster shots and — by eliminating that second visit to the doctor — could lower the cost.

When researchers examined the animals over the next several months, they found that this approach cured a much higher proportion of mice than delivery of the drug by other techniques.

While researchers have long worked with nanoparticles for drug delivery, the findings put forth by He and his team represent a crucial breakthrough in addressing multidrug resistance in cancer cells.

The new material, described online 25 April in Science by synthetic chemist Andreas Lendlein of mnemoScience GmbH in Aachen, Germany, and biomedical engineer Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is composed of two polymers, each already used separately in clinical applications such as drug delivery.

Siranda Torvaldsen of the University of Sydney, Australia, found that 416 women given the opioid drug fentanyl by epidural injection during delivery were twice as likely to have stopped breastfeeding their baby by the age of six months compared with 312 women who didn't receive epidural fentanyl (International Breastfeeding Journal, DOI: 10.1186 / 1746 -4358-1-24).

The recent growth is driven, experts say, by aging populations and increased life expectancy in the developed world; combination products that couple a medical device with a drug, the device usually acting as a drug - delivery vehicle; miniaturization (via nanotechnology), making medical devices less invasive; and the use of molecular diagnostics to customize therapeutic regimens and to assess individual disease risk.

By controlling the timing of the interaction, researchers could pinpoint delivery of the drug to a precise location, thus preventing side common side effects of chemotherapy, such as hair loss or cardiac toxicity.

Researchers at McGill University have developed a new, low - cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block — a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds made from DNA strands to be used in applications such as optical and electronic devices or smart drug - delivery systems.

Microfluidics engineers grapple with it when they try to pack as many drug - delivery bubbles as they need into a tiny capillary tube, and manufacturers confront it when they try to cut shipping costs by packing as many bouncy balls into as small a package as possible.

iRGD is therefore potentially useful to optimize the delivery of cancer drugs by the nanoparticle to the tumor.

By 2010, the nation will be able to host 15 world - class biomedical sciences companies and will become the region's hub for biomedical sciences activities, including drug discovery and development, clinical research, and health care delivery.

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have teamed up with clinicians to create a new drug - delivery strategy for a type of central vision loss caused by blood vessel growth at the back of the eye, where such growth should not occur.

The research was led by Professor Cameron Alexander, Head of the Division of Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering and EPSRC Leadership Fellow in the University's School of Pharmacy, building on work by PhD student Peter Magennis.

More importantly, by varying the ratio of these two materials and modifying the capsule design, targeted drug delivery either to the stomach, the small intestine or the colon can be achieved.

And a few different techniques have since emerged to improve drug delivery, and, by extension, safety — such as Alnylam's approach of binding the RNAi therapeutic to a lipid nanoparticle, or fat, to help it settle in the liver.

Research led by Rein Ulijn, Director of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)'s Nanoscience Initiative and Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College, has paved the way for the development of dynamically - evolving polymers that form spontaneously by adapting to their environment, which may lead to a number of product possibilities including drug delivery, food science and cosmetics, the results of which were published today in Nature Nanotechnology.

By controlling the pore structure of the material the amorphous phase stabilisation exerted on poorly soluble drug compounds can be tuned and the drug delivery rate can be tailored.

In theory, superparamagnetic particles could be ideal for drug delivery, as they can be directed to a tumor simply by using a magnetic field.

This method of making larger superparamagnetic crystals paves the way for the development of superparamagnetic bulk materials that can be reliably controlled by moderate external magnetic forces, revolutionizing drug delivery to tumors and other sites in the body that need to be targeted precisely.

The research being carried out by Berzins, Bunge and Goodyer is extremely relevant to drug delivery via skin patches and Professor Hadgraft has an ongoing collaboration with them.

They hope to be able to model drug delivery through skin using the computer simulations developed by the team.

«Our vaccine was made possible by combining a wide range of biomedical expertise that thrives in Boston and Cambridge,» said Mooney, who specializes in the design of biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery.

A new study shows that a 70 - year - old malaria drug can block immune cells in the liver so nanoparticles can arrive at their intended tumor site, overcoming a significant hurdle of targeted drug delivery, according to a team of researchers led by Houston Methodist.

Prior studies suggested that nanoparticle drug delivery might improve the therapeutic response to anticancer drugs and allow the simultaneous monitoring of drug uptake by tumors.

An article by Dr. Aihui Ma - Ham, Dr. Zhiwen Tang, Ms. Hong Wu, Dr. Jun Wang and Dr. Yuehe Lin in Small reviewed current developments in one area of promise for nanomaterials: protein - based nanomedicine platforms for drug delivery.

Shahab explaines the study's findings would pave the way for designing more - efficient drug delivery capsules in the future, especially those that can be activated by focused ultrasound waves.

The product combines pancreatic progenitor cells called PEC - 01, produced by a directed differentiation process, encapsulated with a semi-permeable device called the Encaptra ® Drug Delivery System, both are proprietary technologies.

Our therapeutic siRNA molecules are combined with delivery systems, which markedly enhance the efficiency and specificity of our siRNA drugs by directing them to the right cell type in the body and sparing healthy tissues.

Using nanoparticles, Yale researchers have developed a drug - delivery system that could reduce organ transplant complications by hiding the donated tissue from the recipient's immune system....

The possibility of using novel drug delivery systems for known and new antibiotic drugs opens the way to an innovative management of infections caused by drug resistant bacteria, which are otherwise difficult to treat.

The targeted drug delivery appears to be a very promising strategy for controlling the biodistribution of the cytotoxic agent only on malignant tissues by linking it to tumor - targeting moiety.

Shandiz Tehrani, MD, PhD Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Funded by The Alcon Foundation Project: Local Drug Delivery to the Optic Nerve Head as a Novel Treatment in Experimental Glaucoma

A new, nanoparticle - based drug delivery system being developed by health physics professor Steen Madsen offers new treatment for glioblastoma.

-LSB-...] systems for drug delivery (for example) are not the only means by which nanotechnology is contributing to the advance of medicine.

Some of their goals include the unravelling of disease mechanisms by using nanomaterials to track cellular components and probe the chemical niche of the cells, the transformation of adult human cells into induced pluripotent stem cells and the delivery of drugs directly to immune and cancer cells.

The delivery of drugs transdermally (through the skin) is a practice used in medicine to avoid the risk or inconvenience of intravenous therapy, to lower loss of absorption as a drug passes through the gastrointestinal tract, to lower metabolism of the drug by the liver, and to provide a more targeted application (such as a topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug delivery via patch vs. swallowing a pill).

When tricked into making the delivery, Lucy finds the Korean mob headed by Jang to be a group of ruthless killers who implanted a bag of an experimental recreation blue crystal drugs in her intestines for her to be a drug mule.

Conceived as a loose riff on star Channing Tatum's time as a male stripper, it has a solid run as a cheerful smut delivery mechanism before hanging up its thong to become a rote «80s melodrama about good kids corrupted by bad drugs.