Developing recombinant protein pharmaceuticals has proved to be very challenging because of both the complexity of protein production and purification, and the limited physical and chemical stability of proteins. To overcome the instability barrier, proteins often have to be made into solid forms to achieve an acceptable shelf life as pharmaceutical products. The most commonly used method for p...

PURPOSE Cationic gemini surfactants have been studied as non-viral vectors for gene therapy. Clinical applications of cationic lipid/DNA lipoplexes are restricted by their instability in aqueous formulations. In this work, we investigated the influence of lyophilization on the essential physiochemical properties and in vitro transfection of gemini surfactant-lipoplexes. Additionally, we evaluat...

Vacuum foam drying is evaluated as an alternative for lyophilization for enhanced process and storage stability of bovine serum albumin. The protein protective efficiency of different stabilizers was compared in vacuum foam drying and lyophilization. Sucrose mixtures produced better foam characters than mannitol. Unlike calcium lactate, incorporation of polyvinyl pyrrolidone to sucrose synergis...

Although lyophilization reduces the bacterial population in plasma, some species survive for several months. Sensitivity or resistance to lyophilization in plasma is a characteristic of each morphological type, with gram-negative species being more sensitive to destruction than cocci or sporulating gram-positive species. Reconstituted preparations of lyophilized plasma must be incubated for 24 ...

in this study, nystatin liposomal formulation was prepared and characterized. the physicochemical properties of formulations including vesicle size, drug entrapment stability and in vitro release were studied. the highest entrapment efficiency of nystatin into liposomes was obtained about 70% when cholesterol (cho) was added to the formulations prepared with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. in a...

Lactococcus lactis strains tolerance to the lyophilization process is one of the criteria used during the selection of starter cultures in cheese production. The viability of L. lactis strains isolated from silage and milk after the lyophilization process was evaluated in the present study by flow cytometry and cell plate counting. The LIVE/DEAD BacLight TM kit, which contains the dyes SYTO 9 a...

F reeze-drying or lyophilization is a process that removes water from a substance. This dehydration process is performed under vacuum while the substance is in a frozen state. Lyophilization technology is used to freeze-dry products such as biologicals, bacterial cultures, analytical chemistry moieties, and therapeutic molecules (e.g., antibodies, vaccines, drugs, and heat-sensitive proteins). ...

the aim of this investigation was to improve the storage stability and survival rate of intravesical bcg product, manufactured with an attenuated strain of mycobacterium bovis (pasteur strain 1173p2 of bcg) in the presence of sodium glutamate. formulations with various concentrations of trehalose (a known protectant) were developed as liquid and lyophilized forms. formulations were evaluated by...