Intravenous fat emulsions (IFE) are traditionally used as a component of parenteral nutrition
therapy. Recently, IFE was used to resuscitate severe local anesthetic drug toxicity. This …

Hospitals routinely treat patients suffering from overdoses of drugs or other toxic chemicals
as a result of illicit drug consumption, suicide attempts or accidental exposures. However, for …

Nanomedicine is defined as the application of nanobiotechnology to medicine. It is a
discipline at the interface of medicine and nanobiotechnology but is not a subspecialty of …

BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether improved metabolism or a “lipid sink” effect of lipid
infusion is responsible for the positive effects in local anesthetic-induced myocardial …

Chitosan was N-acylated with butanoic, hexanoic and benzoic anhydride under
homogeneous conditions in the presence of methanol. The degree of substitution of N-acyl …

Surfactant research explores the forces responsible for surfactant assembly and the critical
industrial, medical, and personal applications, including viscosity control, microelectronics …

Injectable scavenging nanocarriers have been proposed as detoxifying agents when there
are no specific antidotes to treat pharmacological overdoses. They act by capturing the drug …

This work reports on the preparation of UV-light responsive nanocapsules based on cross-
linked polyamide, obtained by miniemulsion interfacial polymerization. The photo-triggered …

The traditional Chinese medicine, Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen), promotes blood circulation
and relieves blood stasis, also demonstrating good antioxidant activity. In the present study …

Local anesthetics block the transmission of painful stimuli to the brain by acting on ion
channels of nociceptor fibers, and find application in the management of acute and chronic …