Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have demonstrated a remarkable capacity for self-assembly into nanobundles through intermolecular van der Waals interactions, bestowing these agglomerates extraordinary mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. However, how to improve the binding ability of SWCNT bundles to mitigate the delamination and sliding effects between individual nanotubes r...

To cite: Patel P, Antoniou S, Popat R. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2015;22: 18–22. ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to determine patient specific perceptual and practical barriers to adherence to phosphate binders. The second stage aimed to determine the effectiveness of an adherence enhancing strategy trialled by patients. Methods A prospective, cross sectional study of patients attending a ...

Affinity panning of large libraries is a powerful tool to identify protein binders. However, panning rounds are followed by the tedious re-screening of the clones obtained to evaluate binders precisely. In a first application of Bead Surface Display (BeSD) we show successful in vitro affinity selections based on flow cytometric analysis that allows fine quantitative discrimination between binde...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Dialysis patients have a high burden of co-existing diseases, poor health-related quality of life (HR-QOL), and are prescribed many medications. There are no data on daily pill burden and its relationship to HR-QOL and adherence to therapy. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Two hundred and thirty-three prevalent, chronic dialysis patients from three units...

OBJECTIVE Few studies have investigated nonadherence to phosphate binders. The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of adherence of our hemodialysis (HD) patients to phosphate binders and to determine which variables were related to nonadherence to treatment. METHODS In 165 HD patients, the degree of adherence to the drugs prescribed was studied using the Simplified Medication Adheren...

The acquisition of drug-resistant mutations by infectious pathogens remains a pressing health concern, and the development of strategies to combat this threat is a priority. Here we have applied a general strategy, inverse design using the substrate envelope, to develop inhibitors of HIV-1 protease. Structure-based computation was used to design inhibitors predicted to stay within a consensus s...

BACKGROUND Phosphate binders' constituents have alkalotic or acidotic properties and may contribute to acid base balance in haemodialysis patients. This study aimed to investigate the differential effects of phosphate binders on pre-dialysis serum bicarbonate in End Stage Kidney Disease patients on maintenance haemodialysis. METHODS Stable out-patients having satellite haemodialysis for at le...

Renal osteodystrophy is characterized by abnormalities in bone turnover, mineralization, and bone volume. The effects of treatment modalities for renal osteodystrophy on bone should be analyzed with respect to these abnormalities. The major treatment modalities for renal osteodystrophy include phosphate binders, vitamin D compounds, and calcimimetics. Aluminum-containing phosphate binders have ...

In India, most of the pavement is laid by bituminous road and the consumption of binder is high for pavement construction and also modified binders are used to satisfy any specific pavement requirement. Since the binders are visco-elastic material which is having the mechanical properties of binder transition from viscoelastic solid to visco-elastic fluid. In this paper, two different protocols...