From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2009-11-12 19:31:18 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] new medication delivery methods for future under study
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Having lost Whizbang to diabetes recently I am noticing announcements=20
like this one more. It may also be useful for extreme vulvar=20
infections, another problem that Whizbang had.
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=3D22814
Short quotes:
> ...Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, are=20
> developing a new type of pill [that can go to the] bloodstream=20
> through the gut.
>
> Pills must go through the stomach=92s acid, and then to intestines=20
> filled with enzymes designed to break down molecules such as insulin.
>
...
> Tejal A. Desai, who is leading the study, is designing a spiny-bead=20
> structure to fill with the drugs. The spines will be silicon=20
> nanowires that will stick to the hair-like cilia covering the cells=20
> lining the gut. Once the two stick together, the drug can be=20
> absorbed through the gut, into the bloodstream.
>
...
> [Her] new approach may potentially also offer the ability to deliver=20
> drugs to other parts of the body including nasal mucosal tissues,=20
> lungs, and the vagina.
Also:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=3D22815
>Thin films of silver and copper embedded in a porous ceramic
>can kill bacteria and may one day be used to battle hospital infections.
>Using ceramic structures, Dana Filoti, a graduate student in physics
>at the University of New Hampshire, is researching the hypothesis
>that a combination of silver and copper might work synergistically
> to better kill bacteria. "The hard ceramic structure looks like Swiss
> cheese and inside the holes there are ions of silver and copper,"
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
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