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Pacira is seeking a co-promotion partner for EXPAREL in the United States. Outside the United States (except Japan), EXPAREL is available for licensing in both human and animal health applications. In the United States, Pacira intends to commercialize EXPAREL and its proprietary pipeline products within specialty acute care. Partnerships in the U.S. for both human and animal health to expand the commercialization are currently in development. EXPAREL is the latest product to benefit from Pacira's proprietary sustained-release DepoFoam(R) technology. DepoFoam technology is designed to address the limitations of widely used medications by enhancing their dosing and/or administration profile. It achieves this by encapsulating the drug in multivesicular liposomal particles which then release the drug over a desired period of time without altering the drug molecule. DepoFoam is a proven technology that is already used in two commercially available products in the U.S. and Europe.

About Pacira

Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an acute care specialty pharmaceutical company founded in March, 2007 through the acquisition of the former SkyePharma PLC injectable business, for which an experienced management team was assembled to address the needs of the acute care market. The company's most advanced product, EXPAREL(TM) (DepoBupivacaine), a bupivacaine-based product intended to deliver postoperative pain relief by infiltration, is in late Phase III clinical development. Pacira also plans to study EXPAREL for nerve block, non-surgical pain such as long bone fracture and for intraarticular injection. EXPAREL benefits from the proprietary DepoFoam Technology owned by Pacira. Two other DepoFoam-based products -- DepoDur(R) and DepoCyt/DepoCyte(R) -- are marketed by partners in several global territories. The Depo
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