Sepacore® for the separation of plant extracts
Customer:
University of Basel, Switzerland
The Division of Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Basel in Switzerland is a center of excellence for natural product and medicinal plant research.
It belongs to the Departement of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a leading research and teaching center in drug discovery & development, drug therapy and drug safety.
Research groups collaborate and teach in the areas of lead discovery, molecular mechanisms of drug action and drug toxicity, rational drug design, pharmacotherapy, and the safe use of drugs.
Application:
Separation of plant extracts
The investigation of bioactive compounds contained in plants requires several steps of extraction and separation before the active substances can be obtained in a pure form for further chemical and biological characterization.
In the course of this process, compounds with a broad range of polarity have to be separated.
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