Introduction Drugs of abuse can be defined as drugs that are taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); which can lead to physical and mental damage and with some substances, dependence and addiction. The abuse of drugs is a significant public health problem affecting ...
Amino acids may be referred to herein by either their commonly known three letter symbols or by the one-letter symbols recommended by the IUPAC-IUB Biochemical Nomenclature Commission. Nucleotides, likewise, may be referred to by their commonly accepted single-letter codes....
As used herein, “succinate” is the ionized form of succinic acid (IUPAC name butanedioic acid), and it is understood that succinate and succinic acid can be used interchangeably throughout to refer to the compound in any of its neutral or ionized forms, including any salt forms thereof. It...
As used herein, a “parametric balancing agent” is a material that can be employed to alter one or more of the following properties of an encapsulate and/or the encapsulate's core material: density, vapor pressure and/or cLogP. When a parametric balancing agent is used to alter the vapor ...