Violeta Popovici, Elena Matei, Georgeta Camelia Cozaru, Laura Bucur, Cerasela Elena Gîrd, Verginica Schröder, Emma Adriana Ozon, Mirela Adriana Mitu, Adina Magdalena Musuc, Simona Petrescu, Irina Atkinson, Adriana Rusu, Raul-Augustin Mitran, Mihai Anastasescu, Aureliana Caraiane, Dumitru Lupuliasa, Mariana Aschie, Eugen Dumitru, Victoria Badea
The oral cavity's common pathologies are tooth decay, periodontal disease, and oral cancer; oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most frequent oral malignancy, with a high mortality rate. Our study aims to formulate, develop, characterize, and pharmacologically investigate the oral mucoadhesive patches (F-UBE-HPMC) loaded with Usnea barbata (L.) F.H. Wigg dry ethanol extract (UBE), using HPMC K100 as a film-forming polymer. Each patch contains 312 µg UBE, with a total phenolic content (TPC) of 178.849 µg and 33...
September 13, 2022: Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)