Abstract: Liquid dispenser comprises a main body including a main duct, wherein an animal can drink from the front side of the dispenser liquids dispensed through the main duct, wherein a stem is arranged in the main duct and comprises a head urged by elastic means towards the main duct, wherein an auxiliary body is fixed to the main body and includes an auxiliary duct, wherein the head of the stem and the elastic means are arranged in a chamber which connects the main and auxiliary ducts, wherein the auxiliary body is fixed to the main body by means of extensions engaged with protuberances to prevent reciprocal axial movements between the main body and the auxiliary body, and wherein a locking element is fixed to the main body and/or to the auxiliary body to prevent mutual rotations around the longitudinal axis of the main body with respect to the body auxiliary.

Abstract: A system for automatically detecting the presence of a cage or tray for containing laboratory animals in a specific position of a facility shelf and a method for managing the data relating to the cage, implemented by the system, particularly advantageous for the laboratory technician. In particular, the system is composed of a shelf comprising a plurality of devices designed to detect the position in the facility and the ID of a cage, a central control unit designed to process, through software, the information received in order to offer the operator the possibility of tracking and managing, by means of a database, the whole facility. Numerous other functions of the system are included, such as the function designed to detect and notify, visually or through the software, the correct positioning of a cage in the shelf.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for automatically detecting the presence of a cage or tray for containing laboratory animals in a specific position of a facility shelf and to a method for managing the data relating to the cage, implemented by means of said system, particularly advantageous for the laboratory technician. In particular, the present invention relates to a system (1) composed of a shelf (20) comprising a plurality of devices (23) designed to detect the position in the facility and the ID of a cage (30), a central control unit (73) designed to process, through software, the information received in order to offer the operator the possibility of tracking and managing, by means of a database, the whole facility. Numerous other functions of the system are included in the present invention, such as the function designed to detect and notify, visually or through the software, the correct positioning of a cage in the shelf.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for purifying non-homogeneous systems, known as liposomic suspensions, from non-entrapped drugs wherein said suspensions are treated with liquid or solid polymers of synthetic and organic nature having chemical functionality, which are used as ion-exchangers. The liquid or solid polymers are based on styrene, divinylbenzene, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and the like, normally known as ion-exchange resins, and may include carboxylic, phosphonic or sulphonic functions of different matrices. The ion-exchange resins may also include salified quaternary ammonium, primary, secondary and tertiary amminic or phosphinic functions or other functions with different matrices, including phenolformaldehyde, styrene-divinylbenzene, acrylates, methacrylates, hydrocarbons and condensation-resins.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of sterile and stable freeze-dried forms of Cisplatinum containing from 10 to 50 mg of active ingredient, which can be obtained on an industrial scale and which have particular characteristics of facility and rapidity of dissolution which permit them to be used in a more advantageous and rational manner in antitumor chemotherapy, as compared with the freeze-dried forms of Cisplatinum presently on the market.These particular characteristics are achieved as the result of employing special ingredients in respect of formulation (concentration of the solution to be freeze-dried, introduction of alcohols, adjustment of the pH of the solution to an appropriate value), and as the result of using a manufacturing technique having as its final stage the freeze-drying of Cisplatinum in a water-alcoholic medium.

Abstract: New pharmaceutical sustained-release compositions, formulated as tablets, are prepared by mixing the active ingredient with excipient already granulated and coated with polymers and/or copolymers or a polymers- and/or copolymers-mixture substantially insoluble in water. Such pharmaceutical preparations enable one to enhance or to decrease very easily and precisely the sustained-release effect by regulating the granulometry of the excipient, the excipient/active ingredient ratio, the hardness, and the percentage of the polymers and/or copolymers or of the polymers- and/or copolymers-mixture.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for purifying non-homogeneous systems, known as liposomic suspensions, from non-entrapped drugs wherein said suspensions are treated with liquid or solid polymers of synthetic and organic nature having chemical functionality, which are used as ion-exchangers. The liquid or solid polymers are based on styrene, divinylbenzene, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and the like, normally known as ion-exchange resins, and may include carboxylic, phosphonic, or sulphonic functions of different matrices. The ion-exchange resins may also include salified quaternary ammonium, primary, secondary and tertiary amminic or phosphinic functions or other functions with different matrices, including phenolformaldehyde, styrene-divinylbenzene, acrylates, methacrylates, hydrocarbons and condensation-resins.