A core material such as living tissue, individual cells, hormones, enzymes or antibodies is encapsulated in a semipermeable membrane that is permeable to small molecules for contact with the core material but is impermeable to potentiall...
A method of preparing a controlled-release pharmaceutical compound for oral administration, which pharmaceutical compound is subject to enzymatic hydrolysis on oral administration, which method comprises encapsulating the pharmaceutical ...
Associates of at least one amphiphilic bilayer-forming substance and a solubilizing agent are formed in an aqueous phase. The bilayer-forming substance itself can be a pharmaceutical substance, or pharmaceutical substances and/or pharmac...
The present invention relates to a process for producing a dispersion of spheres comprising arranged molecular layers encapsulating an aqueous phase. The process comprises admixing a water-dispersible lipid component with the aqueous ph...
Drug dispensers comprising a flat body composed of a drug solute phase dispersed in a continuous polymer matrix phase in which the release rate of drug from the body is substantially constant and is controlled by the rate at which the dr...
