Abstract:
An osmotic delivery system having a space-efficient piston is provided. The enclosure has an interior holding the piston, a protein or peptide, and an osmotic agent. The piston is movable with respect to an interior surface of the capsule, and defines a movable seal with the interior surface of the capsule. The movable seal separates the osmopolymer from the protein or peptide. The piston has a recess that receives at least a portion of the osmotic agent. The osmotic agent imbibes liquid from a surrounding environment to cause the piston to move and, in turn, cause delivery of the beneficial agent from the capsule.
Abstract:
The present invention includes a method for making a formulation for treating mucosal discontinuities, comprising: providing phenolic compounds and treating the purified phenolic compounds with sulfuric acid to make sulfonic acids and sulfonate salts. The present invention also includes formulations prepared by the method.
Abstract:
Provided is a method for enhancing and accelerating the repair of chronic cellular and molecular damage to skin. Also provided is a method for thinning stratum corneum of mammalian, preferably human, skin thickened by extrinsic free radicals and restoring elastic tissue damaged by extrinsic free radicals. Both methods comprise the topical administration to mammalian, preferably human, skin of a composition comprising selenoamino acids in a pharmaceutically acceptable transdermal carrier.
Abstract:
1. A HABITABLE ATMOSPHERE WHICH DOES NOT SUPPORT COMBUSTION AND WHICH IS CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING MAMMALIAN LIFE COMPRISING: A. OXYGEN IN AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN MAMMALIAN LIFE, SAID AMOUNT PROVIDING AN OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE WITHIN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 1.8 P.S.I.A. AND ABOUT 8.2 P.S.I.A.; B. A PERFLUOROALKANE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF PERFLUOROMETHANE, PERFLUOROETHANE, PERFLUOROPROPANE, PERFLUOROBUTANE, PERFLUOROCYCLOBUTANE, PERFLUORODIMETHYLCYCLOBUTANE, AND MIXTURES THEREOF IN AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO RENDER SAID HABITABLE ATMOSPHERE SUBSTANTIALLY INCAPABLE OF SUPPORTING COMBUSTION AND IMPART TO SAID ATMOSPHERE A TOTAL HEAT CAPCAITY PER MOLE OF OXYGEN OF AT LEAST 40 CAL./*C. MEASURED AT 25* C. AND CONSTANT PRESSUE; AND C. HELIUM IN AN AMOUNT OF AT LEAST ABOUT 5 MOLE PERCENT.
Abstract:
A pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of infections of the respiratory tract, consisting of, in the desiccated and finely micronized state, lyophilized killed micro-organisms and their lyzates, selected from specific micro-organisms previously recognized to be responsible for such kind of infection, and also micro-organisms not previously recognized to be responsible for such kind of infection, and administered by inhalation in aerosol form.
Abstract:
AEROSOLS OF AQUEOUS PARTICLES OF SUBMICRON DIAMETER WHICH ARE STABLE AGAINST EVAPORATION AND SUITABLE TO BE READILY TRANSMITTED TO THE ALVEOLI OF THE LUNG BY INSPIRATION, MAY BE PREPARED FROM AQUEOUS LECITHIN DISPERSIONS NEBULIZED, AS BY AN ULTRASONIC NEBULIZER, AT TEMPERATURES GREATER THAN ABOUT 25*C. LECITHIN AEROSOLS THUS PREPARED ARE USEFUL FOR THE TREATMENT OF LUNG DISORDERS, AND MAY OPTIONALLY CONTAIN OTHER THERAPEUTIC AGENTS SUCH AS ANTIOBIOTICS.
Abstract:
Continuous processing methods for making absorbable polymeric non-wovens with one or more of the following properties: high burst strength, fine fibers of average diameter from 1 μm to 50 μm, and thickness from 10 μm to 50 mm, have been developed. Improved fiber cohesion is made possible by allowing the fibers of the non-woven to initially remain molten during web collection. In the preferred embodiment, the polymer is a polyhydroxyalkanoate, and in the most preferred embodiment, the polymer comprises 4-hydroxybutyrate. A particularly preferred embodiment is a non-woven of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate or copolymer thereof, wherein the non-woven has a burst strength greater than 0.1 Kgf, wherein the non-woven is derived by a continuous melt-blown process. The non-wovens can be used for a variety of purposes including fabrication of medical devices.
Abstract:
The present invention features a novel therapy for effecting acute treatment of migraine headache. The therapy involves intravenous administration of valproate and is equal to and in some respects superior to previously-known therapies for abortive treatment of prolonged moderate to severe acute migraine headache.