Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (NASDAQ: LEXX) Completes Dosing in Human Oral Nicotine Study, Hopes to Facilitate More Satisfying Experience with DehydraTECH(TM)-Processed Oral Nicotine
Lexaria recently reported that dosing of the targeted 36 volunteers in its human clinical oral nicotine study, NIC-H22-1, had been completed The company hopes to demonstrate that its DehydraTECH(TM)-processed nicotine absorbs more quickly and more efficiently into the human bloodstream than leading oral nicotine brands Through previous animal testing, Lexaria showed that DehydraTECH-nicotine was up to 10x to 20x faster in delivering comparable levels of nicotine and delivered up to 6-fold higher levels of nicotine into blood plasma than concentration-matched controls If the findings from the human study replicate a similarly improved performance, Lexaria believes this could facilitate a more…