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Anna Fureby, PhD, Group Manager & Senior Scientist, Life Science, and Ulla Elofsson, PhD, Senior Scientist, both of SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, and Per Gerde, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Inhalation Sciences Sweden, discuss the serious problem of antibiotic resistance and the potential role of antimicrobial peptides in the treatment of resistant bacterial strains. For pulmonar
Tablets are the most convenient form for drug administration. However, despite the ease of manufacturing problems such as powder adhesion occur during the production process. This study presents surface and structural characterization of tablets formulated with commonly used excipients (microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), lactose, mannitol, magnesium (Mg) stearate) pressed under different compaction
This chapter deals with aqueous two-phase systems, which are formed spontaneously when two polymers are mixed in water as a common solvent. Such phase-separated systems have potential as microencapsulation systems, although the major focus in research has been (bio)separation applications. Added components, such as proteins, large molecules, whole cells, and emulsion droplets, tend to partition pr
Solid dispersion tablets prepared by either spray drying or rotoevaporation and exhibiting different grain and pore sizes were investigated under the process of hydration-swelling-gelation. 2H and 1H NMR microimaging experiments were used to selectively follow water penetration and polymer mobilization kinetics, respectively, while the drug release kinetics was followed by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The
We demonstrate the ability of drugs to influence the wetting of solid dispersion tablets in unexpected ways. Five model drugs of different water solubility and ability to interact with the involved polymers were incorporated in hydrophilic polymer matrices, made of either hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) or polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP). The physical mixtures of all combinations of drug and poly
Microencapsulation can be used to improve the stability and control the release of dried active food ingredients such as flavors, enzymes, probioticas and oxidation sensitive oils. Spray-drying can be used for encapsulation and powder generation in one step by utilizing different phenomena that occur during drying. Dry emulsion is a classic way to supply encapsulated flavors and protect oxidation
A common challenge in the development of new drug substances is poor dissolution characteristics caused by low aqueous solubility. In this study, microcrystals with optimized physicochemical properties were prepared by precipitation in the presence of excipients, which adsorbed to the particle surface and altered particle size, morphology, and dissolution rate. The poorly water-soluble drug sirame
Solid dispersions are promising drug delivery forms which offer the possibility to disperse a hydrophobic drug in a hydrophilic matrix and thereby improve the dissolution behavior and the bioavailability of the drug. One important aspect and a prerequisite in understanding the drug dissolution mechanism from solid dispersions is a better analytical monitoring of the solid dispersion surface proper
The objective of this study was to investigate the swelling characteristics of a hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) matrix incorporating the hydrophilic drug antipyrine. We have used this matrix to introduce a novel analytical method, which allows us to obtain within one experimental setup information about the molecular processes of the polymer carrier and its impact on drug release. Nuclear ma
I denna artikel undersöks hur omställningen till distansundervisning i svenska gymnasieskolor i samband med coronapandemin påverkade lärare och förutsättningarna för deras pedagogiska uppdrag. Fokus i artikeln ligger på lärares upplevelser av sitt arbete och hur deras lärarvardag i flera avseenden kom att negeras under pandemin, vilket också kom att innebära att delvis omedvetna föreställningar om
This article discusses a concept that institutions from the OECD to the EU increasingly employ in their response to the ecological crisis: The bioeconomy, wherein materials for economic activity would be bio-based and renewable. As a present-day project, the bioeconomy translates the critique of (fossil) carbon into patterns of (material) resource use and (economic) resource allocation, not least
We present novel approaches involving generative adversarial networks and diffusion models in order to synthesize high-quality, live, and spoof fingerprint images while preserving features such as uniqueness and diversity. We generate live fingerprints from noise with a variety of methods, and we use image translation techniques to translate live fingerprint images to spoof. To generate different
The last several years of research, including children followed from birth and extensive genetic studies, have resulted in a paradigm shift of the etiology and pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Autoimmune T1DM is characterized by the appearance in early childhood of a first β-cell autoantibody against either insulin (IAA) or GAD65 (GADA), or both. The genetic etiology is strongly as
Despite the numerous cultural networks within and outside of European contexts of culture-led urban development as well as transnational cultural policy-making, in-depth analyses of such networks remain scarce. In light of this, the article introduces the network Trans Europe Halles (TEH, est. 1983) as an empirical case study that illustrates cultural grassroots organising across its 165+ members
This article explores the development process of a sharing platform in the tourism industry, drawing on a longitudinal case study of a sharing-based business in adventure tourism in Sweden. The purpose is to explore how sharing business models emerge through processes of ideological narration—the strategic use of stories to shape and sustain a business. Over a two-year period, empirical data were
