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From Farm to Pharmacy: Strawberry-Enabled Oral Delivery of Protein Drugs
2020-03-12
Abstract excerpt
Although oral drug delivery is preferred by patients, it is not possible for proteins because the gastrointestinal tract is not sufficiently permeable. To enable the non-toxic oral uptake of protein drugs, we investigated plant-based foods as intestinal permeation enhancers, hypothesizing that compounds found in food would be well-tolerated by the gastrointestinal tract. Following a screen of over 100 fruits, vege...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fe29127d-8944-58e6-be27-2f538eb042db
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.03.11.987461
