Neha Patel

• Researcher at Kindeva Drug Delivery

The purpose of this study was to rapidly determine, without the use of extensive animal studies, whether biological activity is retained after spray drying insulin with two excipients, lactose and xanthan gum. This was achieved by the detection of protein kinase B (PKB), which is activated by phosphorylation in response to insulin binding to cellul...

When considering the development of potential controlled-release pulmonary drug delivery systems, there is at present no standard method available for the assessment of in vitro drug release profiles necessary to understand how the drug might release following deposition in the lungs. For this purpose, the twin-stage impinger (TSI), apparatus A of...