Browsing Health Sciences by Subject "Pheroid™"
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Evaluation and validation of in vitro assays to determine cell viability for HIV/AIDS expermentation with Pheroid TM technology
(North-West University, 2008)The Southern parts of Africa have the highest prevalence of HIV-infected people and South Africa is the country with the highest number of infections in the world. There is still no cure for AIDS, but anti-HIV medicine can ... -
Formulation and evaluation of different transdermal delivery systems with flurbiprofen as marker
(North-West University, 2012)The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different penetration enhancers containing essential fatty acids (EFAs) on the transdermal delivery of flurbiprofen. Flurbiprofen was used as a marker / model compound. ... -
Formulation and topical delivery of lidocaine and prilocaine with the use of Pheroid™ technology
(North-West University, 2012)Local anaesthetics are used regularly in the medical world for a variety of different procedures. Topical anaesthetics are used largely in minor skin breaking procedures, laceration repair and minor surgical procedures ... -
Optimised topical delivery of 5–fluorouracil
(North-West University, 2012)Skin cancer is the most widely diagnosed form of cancer and it is split in to non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) and cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM). Cutaneous melanoma has a high propensity for malignancy and it has the ... -
Pheroid® technology in the transdermal delivery of selected non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)Drug delivery through the skin still remains an area that enjoys active research with much of the research focusing on physical or chemical methods to reversibly alter the skin’s permeability to compounds because of the ...