Drug-Delivering Device Streamlines Tuberculosis Treatment in Pigs (4 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Drug-Delivering Device Streamlines Tuberculosis Treatment in Pigs (4 of 6)

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Prototype of gastric resident drug delivery system featuring Malvika Verma and Feyisope Eweje and John A F Salama. Verma et al. developed a drug delivery system consisting of bead-like drug pills on a shape memory wire that resides in the stomach for long-term, multigram dosing and is compatible with nasogastric administration. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 13, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Verma at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "A gastric resident drug delivery system for prolonged gram-level dosing of tuberculosis treatment."

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Jonathan B. Miller

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