Devices and methods for preparing and administering a nutritional formula
AssigneeAlcresta Therapeutics, Inc.
InventorsEric FIRST, David Widom, Albert Archie Stone, Willem Robert Klass Schoevaart, Michiel Christian Alexander van Vliet
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Abstract
Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure may be drawn to a device having one or more chambers. The one or more chambers may contain immobilized lipase and a phytosterol processing excipient. The device may also include an inlet fluidly connected to one of the one or more chambers, wherein the inlet is configured to receive nutritional formula into one of the one or more chambers. The device may further include an outlet through which nutritional formula is configured to flow after passing through the one or more chambers.
Claims27
A device comprising:
- one or more chambers;
- immobilized lipase contained within one of the one or more chambers;
- a phytosterol processing excipient contained within one of the one or more chambers;
- an inlet fluidly connected to one of the one or more chambers, wherein the inlet is configured to receive nutritional formula into one of the one or more chambers;
- and
- an outlet through which nutritional formula is configured to flow after passing through the one or more chambers.
A device comprising:
- a first chamber configured to fluidly connect to a source of nutritional formula;
- a second chamber fluidly connected to the first chamber;
- immobilized lipase contained within the first chamber and positioned within a flow path along which the nutritional formula flows when received within the first chamber;
- a phytosterol processing excipient contained within the second chamber and positioned within a flow path along which the nutritional formula flows when received within the second chamber;
- and
- an outlet through which the nutritional formula is configured to flow after passing through the first chamber and the second chamber.
A device comprising:
- a chamber;
- an inlet configured to receive a nutritional formula into the chamber;
- an outlet configured to allow the nutritional formula to exit the chamber;
- and
- a phytosterol processing excipient contained within the chamber.
A method of removing phytosterol comprises:
- mixing cyclodextrin with a nutritional formula containing the phytosterol;
- allowing the cyclodextrin to bind with the phytosterol to form a cyclodextrin-phytosterol conjugate;
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- removing the cyclodextrin-phytosterol conjugate from the nutritional formula.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.