Petra Janská

University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague | VSCHT · Department of Chemical Engineering (ÚCHI)

Allicin, an organic compound produced via the transformation of biologically inactive alliin by alliinase, an enzyme found in garlic, combines a strong antibacterial effect with suppressed development of bacterial resistance. However, because of the high reactivity and volatility, controlled in-situ production of allicin that mimics the natural syn...

Garlic is a well-known example of natural self-defence system consisting of an inactive substrate (alliin) and enzyme (alliinase) which, when combined, produce highly antimicrobial allicin. Increase of alliinase stability and its activity are of paramount importance in various applications relying on its use for in-situ synthesis of allicin or its...

Liposomal formulations can be advantageous in a number of scenarios such as targeted delivery to reduce the systemic toxicity of highly potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), to increase drug bioavailability by prolonging systemic circulation, to protect labile APIs from degradation in the gastrointestinal tract, or to improve skin permea...

Liposomal formulations can be advantageous in a number of scenarios such as targeted delivery to reduce the systemic toxicity of highly potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), to increase drug bioavailability by prolonging systemic circulation, to protect labile APIs from degradation in the gastrointestinal tract, or to improve skin permea...

Many new therapeutic candidates and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are poorly soluble in an aqueous environment, resulting in their reduced bioavailability. A promising way of enhancing the release of an API and, thus, its bioavailability seems to be the use of liquid oil marbles (LOMs). An LOM system behaves as a solid form but consists...