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Lyophilization
Pushing the Limits
for Pharmaceutical
Biotechnology Products
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Figure 1. The Lyophilization unit containing various components. [Source: Nireesha et al 2013]
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Figure 2. A schematic illustration of water uptake and antibody release behavior for low (~20
mg (cm3)1) and high (>35 mg (cm3)1 -sheet density silk lyogels. Lyophilization based removal
of water leads to increased silk-antibody interactions [Source: Guziewicz et al 2011]
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Figure 3. Lyophilized Silk Sponges: A Versatile Biomaterial Platform for Soft Tissue Engineering [Source: Rnjak-Kovacina et al 2015]
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in Pharmaceutical Sciences (IJNTPS),
2013, 3 (4): 87-98.
3. Nicholas Guziewicz, Annie Best, Bernardo Perez-Ramirez, and David L. Kaplan,
Lyophilized Silk Fibroin Hydrogels for
the Sustained Local Delivery of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies. Biomaterials,
2011, 32 (10): 26422650.
4. Tushar R. Jadhav and R. S. Moon, Review
on Lyophilization technique. World Journal
of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
(WJPPS), 2015, 4 (5): 1906-1928.
5. Katarzyna Leja, Radosaw Dembczyski,
Wojciech Biaas, Tomasz Jankowski, Production of dry Lactobacillus rhamnosus
GG preparations by spray drying and lyophilization in aqueous two-phase systems.
Acta Sci. Pol., Technol. Aliment., 2009,
8(4): 39-49.
6. Michele Savini, Cinzia Cecchini, Maria
Cristina Verdenelli, Stefania Silvi, Carla
Orpianesi, and Alberto Cresci, Pilot-scale
Production and Viability Analysis of
Freeze-Dried Probiotic Bacteria Using Different Protective Agents. Nutrients, 2010,
2(3): 330-339.
7. Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, Lindsay S. Wray,
Kelly A. Burke, Tess Torregrosa, Julianne
M. Golinski, Wenwen Huang, and David
L. Kaplan, Lyophilized Silk Sponges: A
Versatile Biomaterial Platform for Soft Tissue Engineering. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng.,
2015, 1 (4): 260270.
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