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Nutritional Supplements

FlaxFit.com - Golden Flaxseed Tablet ForteCal.com - Fast Melting Calcium Supplement Fast Melting Toothpaste Tablet

Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Polymers

Aquagel.com - Superporous Hydrogel Technology Hytrocell - Technology for Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs Polyvivo.com - Biodegradable Block Copolymer Polyvitro - Drug Release Media Restiex - Tissue Expanding Hydrogel using Aquagel Technology Medical Grade Chitosan Fat Gel - Tissue Engineering Scaffold Flamma Fluor - Fluorescent Probes

Contract Research

Oral Tablet Formulations

Current R & D

Frosta - Fast Melting Tablet Technology Stentrix - Drug Eleuting Stent Technology Biodegradable Ureteral Stent

Custom polymer synthesis

In addition to selling our stock polyvivo polymers Akina, Inc. can custom synthesize polymers to meet your specific requirements.  Examples of polymers that Akina can synthesize include biodegradable (PLGA, PLA, PCL) water soluble (PEG) copolymers with specific functional groups such as those detailed below.  In addition to this Akina can also pegylate other proteins/peptides and make some polypeptide sequences. Looking for peptides? Check out www.americanpeptides.com

Reactive End-cap at PEG terminus examples:

Maleimide :

N-Hydroxysuccinimide:

Amine:

Acid:

 

In addition to these end-caps Akina can also add other ligands and peptide sequences to customer specifications for targeting and other desired properties.

Additionally tracking functionalities (e.g. fluorescent dyes, etc.) may be covalently bonded to the polymer for research usage.

Custom polymers can be made to meet your specifications Contact a scientist to make a request or learn more.