Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access

Hideharu Shintani

Publications

• Research Article
  Role of Metastable and Spore Hydration to Sterilize Spores by Nitrogen Gas Plasma Exposure and DPA Analysis by HPLC and UV
  Author(s): Hideharu ShintaniHideharu Shintani
  
  Many papers have been published so far on gas plasma sterilization. They are mostly conducted by physical researchers, so microbiology and chemical aspects are significantly insufficient. By joining the biologists and chemists, gas plasma sterilization research was outstandingly advanced. The mechanism was not clear until now and from the life time and some other reasons metastables can be the most appropriate factors for sterilization. Spore death is explained from the hydration of dipicolinic acid in the core. By attacking metastables spore surface was pin hole opened and the interior water and surrounding water penetrate into the core to hydrate DPA. D.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-7689.1000125

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