Patents Assigned to INST NAT DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHER. MED (INSERM)
  • Publication number: 20120027825
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a useful method for preparing nanocapsules having a liquid lipid core and a solid shell and charged with at least one active agent having a hydrophilic character, said method comprising at least the steps consisting in: i) providing at least a first microemulsion having a water-in-oil character, stabilized by at least one lipophilic surfactant and containing in its hydrophilic phase at least one active agent having a hydrophilic character, providing at least a second microemulsion, separate from the first microemulsion, formulated by phase inversion of an emulsion and stabilized by at least one heat-sensitive, nonionic hydrophilic surfactant; iii) adding said first microemulsion to said second microemulsion under conditions propitious for the formation of a novel microemulsion architecture in which said hydrophilic active agent remains present in the hydrophilic phase of the first microemulsion; and iv) chill-hardening the mixture formed in the previous step, so as to obtain n
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicants: INST NAT DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHER. MED (INSERM), UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Benoit, Olivier Thomas, Patrick Saulnier, Alyaa Adel Ramadan
  • Publication number: 20100093985
    Abstract: A subject of the invention is the use of at least one cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2) inhibitor in the preparation of a medicament intended for the preventive and/or curative symptomatic treatment of cystic fibrosis, particularly of the increased secretion of mucus in cystic fibrosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicants: INSTITUT PASTEUR, INST NAT DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHER. MED (INSERM)
    Inventors: Fariel Dif, Lhousseine Touqui