Salt formulations, which are resistant to moisture and cooking conditions, are described herein. The formulations provide particles of micronutrients and vitamins encapsulated within heat resistant pH-sensitive water-insoluble polymers, which are packaged within a salt shell. The pH-sensitive, water-insoluble, thermally stable materials stabilize the micronutrients, particularly at high temperatures, such as during food preparation and cooking, and release the micronutrients at the desired locations such as the stomach, small intestine, etc. Preferred pH-sensitive polymers release at a low pH, less than the pH present in the stomach. The particles can be used to deliver daily-recommended doses of micronutrients simultaneously with salt, eliminating the need for vitamin pills. This is particularly important in populations suffering from severe malnutrition.

Masking particles which comprise a drug-containing particle containing a drug, an acid, and a carbonate, the drug-containing particle being coated with a coating layer containing a water-insoluble polymer sufficiently suppress drug release in the oral cavity and pharynx, rapidly release a drug after swallowing, and easily control the release suppression time of a drug. The acid may be at least one organic acid. The carbonate may be at least one water-soluble carbonate. Oral pharmaceutical compositions include tablets, granules, fine granules, powders.

A composition includes porous silica particles to carry a cell fate modulating factor therein. A method for modulating cell fate includes treating various cells with the composition. The cell fate modulating factor is delivered to a stable target receptor, toxicity to subject cells for delivery may be reduced, a fate of the subject cells can be controlled through sustained release of at least 99 wt. % of the cell fate modulating factor.

Provided herein is a topical composition comprising tapinarof and methods of treatment of cutaneous adverse effects caused by oncological therapy with the tapinarof composition. The tapinarof compositions of this invention are useful for the treatment, prevention or amelioration of cutaneous and/or mucosal adverse effect caused by oncological therapy selected from chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, hormone therapy and stem cell transplant therapy.

The present invention relates to the field of coating pharmaceutical substrates. In particular, the invention relates to methods of coating of pharmaceutical substances, pharmaceutical ingredients or a blend of them. The invention also provides a method of making a pharmaceutical formulation which may be processed into a pharmaceuticalcal dosage form, which utilizes solid pharmaceutical particles and a pharmaceutical formulation obtained by the method. The methods of the invention utilize atomic layer deposition technology. The novel methods allow difficult, moisture sensitive and electrically charged pharmaceutical substrates to be easily processable.

A spherical core containing an esomeprazole compound as an active ingredient and having a median particle diameter (d.sub.50) of 50 μm or more is coated with a coat containing a controlled release layer to prepare a controlled release granule containing a controlled release granule with a median particle diameter (d.sub.50) of 350 μm or less. The spherical core may contain the esomeprazole compound at a proportion of 50% by mass or more relative to the spherical core. The spherical core may be a spherical particle containing the esomeprazole compound as a drug. The spherical core has a median particle diameter (d.sub.50) of 50 μm or more. The spherical core may have a sphericity of 0.6 or more. The coat may be in a multilayer free from an esomeprazole compound as an active ingredient. The controlled release layer may be an enteric coating layer. The proportion of the coat may be 80% by mass or more relative to the whole amount of the preparation. The oral preparation may be an orally disintegrating tablet containing a disintegrator in addition to the controlled release granule. The oral preparation has an excellent controlled release ability and an excellent formulation designability such as miniaturization.

The present invention chiefly aims to provide a new API particle in which a metal or the like is coated on the API itself of a pharmaceutical solid dosage form.

The present invention includes, for example, a coated API particle, wherein the surface of an API particle is coated with a metal or a metal oxide (e.g., iron oxide) by sputter deposition, and a process for manufacturing a pharmaceutical solid dosage form (e.g., tablet) using the coated API particles.

According to the present invention, for example, it is possible to improve the photostability of an API itself or of pharmaceutical solid dosage forms produced with the API.

This disclosure pertains to coated drug compositions and methods of preparing coated drug compositions with a low temperature silicon oxide coating. Specifically, the instant application discloses a method to coat active pharmaceutical ingredient particles using a silicon precursor and a catalyst at a low temperature.

Disclosed are compositions having mineral crystals and biological molecules for the delivery of the biological materials and methods for preparing mineral crystals having a biologic material.

The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition of the cores of microgranules containing pancreatin, cetyl alcohol, poloxamer 407 in predetermined quantities, the production method, as well as the production of the water-based enteric-coated microgranules. Furthermore, the resulting oral dosage form does not contain residual acetone. The technical result is in achieving higher stability of the cores and the enteric-coated microgranules, respectively, while maintaining the good solubility of the enteric-coated microgranules, which allows the application of the claimed pancreatin microgranules for the preparation of safe and non-toxic drugs for the treatment of digestive disorders.