Background: The demand for higher education in South Africa continues to increase, placing pressure on public higher education institutions to satisfy this demand.Supply chain management is one of the practices that may be implemented to ensure that public universities improve their operations and can, therefore, meet the increased demand for highe
Effect of empagliflozin on cardiac remodelling in South Asian and non-South Asian individuals: insights from the EMPA-HEART CardioLink-6 randomised clinical trial
Abstract Background This exploratory sub-analysis of the EMPA-HEART CardioLink-6 trial examined whether the previously reported benefit of the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin on left ventricular (LV) mass (LVM) regression differs between individuals of South Asian and non-South Asian ethnicity.Methods EMPA-HEART Cardi
Anticancer Activities of Surfactin and Potential Application of Nanotechnology Assisted Surfactin Delivery
Surfactin, a cyclic lipopeptide biosurfactant produced by various strains of Bacillus genus, has been shown to induce cytotoxicity against many cancer types, such as Ehrlich ascites, breast and colon cancers, leukemia and hepatoma.Surfactin treatment can inhibit cancer progression by growth inhibition, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and metastasis a
Pilot Equivalence Study Comparing Different Batches of Topical 0.025% Capsaicin Emulsion: Product Microstructure, Release, and Permeation Evaluation
The European Medical Agency (EMA) has issued a draft guideline on the quality and equivalence of topical products.The equivalence for complex semisolid formulations involves several steps: elf bar airpods case the same quantitative content, the same microstructure, the same release, and permeation profile.In this paper, several batches of a low str