Characterization of probe pharmacokinetics and metabolic stability is critical for understanding in vivo performance and to develop improved probes.
Understanding transport diffusion on a molecular level helps to develop improved adsorbents with tailored rate and equilibrium properties.
Enhanced understanding of HCV-host interactions is required to combat this virus and to develop improved therapies.
Major efforts in universities and company laboratories are focused on better understanding these issues and on developing improved computer-based modeling and process-design methods.
Understanding these complex processes will help in developing improved chemotherapies that could be used to inhibit metastasis.
The Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) was developed to improve understanding of severe influenza infection, as represented by hospitalized cases.
Interventions to support discussions with those newly diagnosed with breast cancer are being developed to improve understanding of risk to individuals and their families [ 28].
Generic and disease specific OHRQoL measures have been developed to improve understanding of the psychosocial consequences of oral diseases upon quality of life and to complement the traditional clinical measures.
A mathematical model was developed to improve understanding of the biodistribution and microscopic profiles of drugs and prodrugs in a system using enzyme-conjugated antibodies as part of a two-step method for cancer treatment.
These observations are supported by the review of interventions which concluded that some of the interventions that are developed to improve understanding are poorly thought out and are merely a repetition of the information from informed consent documents using different media [ 28].
