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The presented diagnostic - a protease cleavable sensor is administered in a chewing gum. Once it comes in contact with patient’s saliva, containing inflammation enzymes, a taste sensation is produced. The patient tastes the presence of inflammation and can tell his doctor about it. The presented diagnostic system can be applied without any power supply anywhere by anybody, at any time - a new dimension of rapid diagnostics.
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Jennifer Ritzer 2001–2006 Biochemiestudium an der Universität Leipzig, 2013 Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biologie ebenda. Seit 2013 Postdoc am Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, Universität Würzburg.
Tobias Miesler Jahrgang 1990. 2010–2015 Pharmaziestudium an der FU Berlin. Seit 2015 Promotionsstudium an der Universität Würzburg.
Lorenz Meinel Pharmaziestudium an der Universität Würzburg; Promotion (Dr. sc. nat.) in Pharmazeutischer Technologie an der ETH Zürich, Schweiz, und weitere Promotion (Dr. rer. med.) an der Universität Frankfurt a. M.; 2007 Habilitation für das Fachgebiet Pharmazeutische Technologie an der ETH Zürich. 2005–2010 Direktor bei Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Schweiz. Seit 2010 Leiter des Lehrstuhls für Pharmazeutische Technologie und Biopharmazie der Universität Würzburg.
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Ritzer, J., Miesler, T. & Meinel, L. Bioresponsive Diagnostik - die Zunge als Detektor oraler Entzündungen. Biospektrum 23, 782–784 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-017-0874-5
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