海洋多糖BTH缓释微球的制备及释放特性研究

目的 以海藻酸钠与壳聚糖为载体材料制备苯并[l,2,3]噻二唑-7-硫代羧酸甲酯(BTH)缓释微球并研究其释放特性。 方法 采用乳化-外源凝胶法制备BTH缓释微球,通过傅里叶变换红外光谱(FT-IR)验证BTH包封于微球当中,利用高效液相(HPLC)外标法测定微球的包封率、载药量以及不同pH溶液中的释放曲线。结果 BTH被均匀的分散在缓释微球当中,平均载药量为11.14%,平均包封率为81.52%,微球可持续释放12天,累计释放量达到61%。 结论 制备的BTH缓释微球形态圆整,表面光滑,成球性好,载药量与包封率较高,具有显著的缓释效果。     

喷雾干燥法制备三七皂苷缓释微球

目的 制备三七皂苷缓释微球.方法 以壳聚糖、丙烯酸树脂为载体材料,采用喷雾干燥法制备三七皂苷缓释微球.以载药量和包封率为指标,采用均匀设计法优化处方.结果 所制三七皂苷缓释微球的外观圆整,平均粒径为11.80μm,包封率70.4%,载药量9.1%,在磷酸缓冲液中三七皂苷12 h释放缓慢、平稳,释放均遵循Weibull方程.结论 所制三七皂苷缓释微球符合预期,具有很好的缓释效果.     

盐酸维拉帕米缓释微球的制备及其质量评价

目的:制备维拉帕米缓释微球,并对其进行质量评价.方法:采用低温喷雾干燥法制备盐酸维拉帕米缓释微球,评价内容包括:微球的粒径及其分布、微球含药量、载药量和包封率、收率以及不同pH值下的释放速率.结果:成功制备了盐酸维拉帕米缓释微球,平均收率为28.97%,所得微球55%以上的粒径在3.0~5.0μm,载药量为26.11%,包封率为76.40%.结论:微球的体外累积释放度完全符合Higuchi方程,初步证实该微球的释放属于骨架溶蚀性过程.     

替莫唑胺壳聚糖缓释微球的制备及体外释药特性

目的:制备替莫唑胺壳聚糖缓释微球,并对其体外释药模式进行研究.方法:以替莫唑胺为模型药物,采用乳化交联法制备壳聚糖微球,两步优化法优化处方和制备工艺.通过测定微球的粒径及其分布、载药量、包封率和体外释放速度对微球进行质量评价.结果:优化工艺制得的微球平均粒径为(3.9±1.6)μm,载药量为(7.1±0.5)%(n=3),包封率为(25.0±0.8)%(n=3),体外释药特性研究具有良好的缓释特性,在0～8 h符合Higuchi方程,Q=11.717 26.951t1/2(r=0.980),8～24 h符合一级释放曲线,lnQ=4.37 0.007 5t(r=0.983).结论:通过优化处方和制备工艺,采用乳化交联法可制备出以壳聚糖为载体、替莫唑胺为模型药物的缓释微球,其体外释药具有明显的缓释作用.     

去甲斑蝥素壳聚糖微球的制备及其体外释放特性

目的:制备去甲斑蝥素壳聚糖微球,并考察其体外释放特性.方法:以液体石蜡为油相,Span-80为乳化剂,甲醛作为交联剂,采用乳化-交联法制备去甲斑蝥素壳聚糖微球.均匀设计优化制备工艺,扫描电镜观察微球表面形态,动态透析法检测微球的体外释放特性.结果:制备的微球形态圆整,粒径分布较为均匀,平均粒径(25±10)μm,载药量(15.08±2.85)%,包封率(57.80±1.35)%.微球在0.1 mol·L-1HCl、磷酸盐缓冲液(pH值5.3)和生理氯化钠溶液中的释放均遵循Higuchi方程.结论:所优化的制备工艺简单易行,载药量高,缓释作用显著.     

依托泊苷肺靶向壳聚糖微球的研制

目的:制备难溶性药物依托泊苷肺靶向壳聚糖微球,并对处方工艺进行筛选.方法:以壳聚糖为分散介质,采用乳化交联法制备依托泊苷肺靶向壳聚糖微球.结果:平均粒径为13.28μm,载药量为25.30%,药物包封率为43.51%.结论:制备的微球具有良好的缓释作用和靶向性.     

吸附和包埋法制备洛美沙星淀粉微球及其体外释放比较研究

目的制备盐酸洛美沙星淀粉微球,并对其体外释药模式进行研究。方法以盐酸洛美沙星为模型药物,采用吸附载药法和包埋载药法制备了载药淀粉微球,通过测定微球载药量、包封率和在不同的释放介质中的体外释放情况,对上述2种方法制备的载药微球进行质量评价。结果吸附法制备的载药微球的平均载药量为14.54μg·mg^-1,药物包封率为39.72%;而包埋载药法制备的淀粉微球的平均载药量为19.32μg·mg^-1,药物包封率为48.95%。体外释药特性研究表明它们具有缓释特性,其中包埋载药法制备的淀粉微球比吸附载药法制备的淀粉微球有更好的缓释能力,在不同的释放介质中释药曲线也有所不同,在模拟胃液中累计释药量只能得到70%;而在模拟肠液中累计释药量能达到80%以上。结论吸附载药法和包埋载药法制备的载药淀粉微球都具有缓释作用,但后者体外释药具有更明显的缓释效果。     

吸附和包埋法制备洛美沙星淀粉微球及其体外释放比较研究

目的 制备盐酸洛美沙星淀粉微球,并对其体外释药模式进行研究。方法 以盐酸洛美沙星为模型药物,采用吸附载药法和包埋载药法制备了载药淀粉微球,通过测定微球载药量、包封率和在不同的释放介质中的体外释放情况,对上述2种方法制备的载药微球进行质量评价。结果 吸附法制备的载药微球的平均载药量为14.54 µg·mg^-1,药物包封率为39.72%;而包埋载药法制备的淀粉微球的平均载药量为19.32 µg·mg^-1,药物包封率为48.95%。体外释药特性研究表明它们具有缓释特性,其中包埋载药法制备的淀粉微球比吸附载药法制备的淀粉微球有更好的缓释能力,在不同的释放介质中释药曲线也有所不同,在模拟胃液中累计释药量只能得到70%;而在模拟肠液中累计释药量能达到80%以上。结论 吸附载药法和包埋载药法制备的载药淀粉微球都具有缓释作用,但后者体外释药具有更明显的缓释效果。     

奥沙普秦壳聚糖-海藻酸钠缓释微球的制备

目的：目的：选择奥沙普秦作为模型药制备壳聚糖-海藻酸钠缓释微球。方法：采用滴制法制备奥沙普秦壳聚糖-海藻酸钠缓释微球，通过正交试验设计优化了处方和工艺，考察其理化特征及体外释药行为。结果：优化处方制得的微球包封率及载药量分别为98．36％和16．26％，平均粒径为（346．6±164．1）μm；1h药物释放达到36％，随后药物的释药行为是一个缓释过程。结论：制得了载药量较大，包封率较高的奥沙普秦壳聚糖-海藻酸钠缓释微球。     

芹菜素壳聚糖微球的制备及体外释药研究

目的以芹菜素为模型药物、脱乙酰壳聚糖为药物载体,制备芹菜素壳聚糖微球,并测定微球中芹菜素的体外释放度。方法采用复乳-乳化化学交联法制备微球,正交试验优化微球制备的工艺,高效液相色谱法检测芹菜素含量。结果最佳工艺制备4批微球,形态良好,微球圆整,平均载药量为8.54%,平均包封率为69.69%,平均粒径为84.33μm。微球在pH 6.8和pH 7.4的磷酸盐缓冲液中释放36 h。结论所选制备工艺稳定,适用于芹菜素壳聚糖微球的制备,体外药物释放结果显示,微球具有良好的缓释效果。     

Efficacy of gut lavage,hemodialysis, and hemoperfusion in the therapy of paraquat or diquat intoxication

Clinical and in vitro investigations were carried out to test the efficacy of gut lavage, hemodialysis, and hemoperfusion in the treatment of poisoning with paraquat or diquat. In a patient suffering from diquat intoxication 130 times more diquat was removed by gut lavage 30 h after ingestion than was removed by complete aspiration of the gastric contents.Determination of in vitro clearances for paraquat and diquat by hemodialysis showed that, at serum concentrations of 1–2 ppm, such as are frequently encountered in poisoning in man, toxicologically relevant quantities of herbicide cannot be removed from the body. At a concentration of 20 ppm, on the other hand, hemodialysis proved to be effective, the clearance being 70 ml/min at a blood flow rate of 100 ml/min. The efficacy of hemoperfusion with coated activated charcoal was on the whole better. Especially at concentrations around 1–2 ppm, the clearance values for hemoperfusion were some 5–7 times higher than those for hemodialysis.In a patient suffering from paraquat poisoning, both hemodialysis as well as hemoperfusion were carried out. The in vitro results could be confirmed: At serum concentrations of paraquat less than 1 ppm no clearance could be obtained by hemodialysis while by hemoperfusion with activated charcoal quite high clearance values were measured and the serum level dropped down to zero.

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Zusammenfassung Klinische Untersuchungen und Laboratoriumsversuche wurden durchgeführt, um die Wirksamkeit von Darmspülung, Hämodialyse und Hämoperfusion bei Paraquat- und Deiquat-Vergiftungen zu prüfen.Bei einem Patienten wurde 30 Std nach Deiquat-Aufnahme durch Darmspülung 130mal mehr Deiquat entfernt als durch vollständige Aspiration des Mageninhaltes. In vitro-Versuche ergaben, daß bei Blutserumkonzentrationen von 1–2 ppm, die bei Vergiftungen oft gemessen werden, durch Hämodialyse keine toxikologisch relevanten Paraquat- oder Deiquat-Mengen entfernt werden können. Dagegen erwies sich die Hämodialyse bei 20 ppm und einer Blutumlaufgeschwindigkeit von 100 ml/min mit einer Clearance von 70 ml/min als wirksam. Die Hämoperfusion mit beschicheter Aktivkohle war in diesen Versuchen aber eindeutig überlegen, denn insbesondere bei Konzentrationen um 1–2 ppm waren die Clearance-Werte 5–7mal höher als bei der Hämodialyse.Die in vitro-Ergebnisse wurden bei einem Patienten mit einer Paraquat-Vergiftung bestätigt: Bei Konzentrationen unter 1 ppm war die Hämodialyse wirkungslos, während durch Hämoperfusion relativ hohe Clearance-Werte erreicht wurden, so daß der Serumspiegel rasch unter die Nachweisgrenze abfiel.

     

In vitro studies on sterically stabilized liposomes (SL) as enzyme carriers in organophosphorus (OP) antagonism

This study describes a new approach for organophosphorous (OP) antidotal treatment by encapsulating an OP hydrolyzing enzyme, OPA anhydrolase (OPAA), within sterically stabilized liposomes. The recombinant OPAA enzyme was derived from Alteromonas strain JD6. It has broad substrate specificity to a wide range of OP compounds: DFP and the nerve agents, soman and sarin. Liposomes encapsulating OPAA (SL)* were made by mechanical dispersion method. Hydrolysis of DFP by (SL)* was measured by following an increase of fluoride ion concentration using a fluoride ion selective electrode. OPAA entrapped in the carrier liposomes rapidly hydrolyze DFP, with the rate of DFP hydrolysis directly proportional to the amount of (SL)* added to the solution. Liposomal carriers containing no enzyme did not hydrolyze DFP. The reaction was linear and the rate of hydrolysis was first order in the substrate. This enzyme carrier system serves as a biodegradable protective environment for the recombinant OP-metabolizing enzyme, OPAA, resulting in prolongation of enzymatic concentration in the body. These studies suggest that the protection of OP intoxication can be strikingly enhanced by adding OPAA encapsulated within (SL)* to pralidoxime and atropine.     

Aquatic Insects and Trace Metals: Bioavailability,Bioaccumulation, and Toxicity

Abstract

The uptake of metals from food and water sources by insects is thought to be additive. For a given metal, the proportions taken up from water and food will depend both on the bioavailable concentration of the metal associated with each source and the mechanism and rate by which the metal enters the insect. Attempts to correlate insect trace metal concentrations with the trophic level of insects should be made with a knowledge of the feeding relationships of the individual taxa concerned. Pathways for the uptake of essential metals, such as copper and zinc, exist at the cellular level, and other nonessential metals, such as cadmium, also appear to enter via these routes. Within cells, trace metals can be bound to proteins or stored in granules. The internal distribution of metals among body tissues is very heterogeneous, and distribution patterns tend to be both metal and taxon specific. Trace metals associated with insects can be both bound on the surface of their chitinous exoskeleton and incorporated into body tissues. The quantities of trace meals accumulated by an individual reflect the net balance between the rate of metal influx from both dissolved and particulate sources and the rate of metal efflux from the organism. The toxicity of metals has been demonstrated at all levels of biological organization: cell, tissue, individual, population, and community. Much of the literature pertaining to the toxic effects of metals on aquatic insects is based on laboratory observations and, as such, it is difficult to extrapolate the data to insects in nature. The few experimental studies in nature suggest that trace metal contaminants can affect both the distribution and the abundance of aquatic insects. Insects have a largely unexploited potential as biomonitors of metal contamination in nature. A better understanding of the physico-chemical and biological mechanisms mediating trace metal bioavailability and exchange will facilitate the development of general predictive models relating trace metal concentrations in insects to those in their environment. Such models will facilitate the use of insects as contaminant biomonitors.     

Pharmacological treatment of COVID-19: an opinion paper

The precocity and efficacy of the vaccines developed so far against COVID-19 has been the most significant and saving advance against the pandemic. The development of vaccines has not prevented, during the whole period of the pandemic, the constant search for therapeutic medicines, both among existing drugs with different indications and in the development of new drugs. The Scientific Committee of the COVID-19 of the Illustrious College of Physicians of Madrid wanted to offer an early, simplified and critical approach to these new drugs, to new developments in immunotherapy and to what has been learned from the immune response modulators already known and which have proven effective against the virus, in order to help understand the current situation.     

Steroidal sapogenin contents in some domestic plants

In order to find out the values of the steroid resources for the future use. the compositions and contents of steroidal sapogenins from 13 domestic plants have been investigated. As a result,Dioscorea nipponica, D. quinqueloba andSmilax china were found to have large amount of diosgenin. And pennogenin inTrillium kamtschaticum andParis verticillata, yuccagenin inAllium fistulosum, hecogenin inAgave americana and neochlorogenin inSolanum nigum were appeared to be major steroidal sapogenins.     

Alzheimer’s disease – current trends in basic and clinical research. Highlights from the 16th ECNP

Advances in the molecular biological knowledge of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have led to a growing interest by the pharmaceutical industry in the development of novel compounds that selectively modulate nAChR function. The ability of (-)-nicotine, an activator of nAChRs, to enhance attentional aspects of cognition in animals and humans, to exert neuroprotective and anxiolytic-like effects, and presumably to mediate the negative correlation between smoking and Alzheimer's (and Parkinson's) Disease, has focused interest on the potential therapeutic utility of modulators of nAChR function for treatment of some of the deficits associated with these progressive, neurodegenerative conditions. Numerous compounds are known which activate nAChRs and which might serve as lead compounds toward the development of such agents. The pharmacologic diversity of neuronal nAChR subtypes suggests the possibility of developing selective compounds which would have more favourable side-effect profiles than existing agents. This broader class of agents, collectively called cholinergic channel modulators (ChCMs), is anticipated to encompass compounds which would have more favourable side-effect profiles than existing agents, which generally exhibit low selectivity. This selectivity may be achieved by preferentially activating some subtypes of nAChRs (i.e., Cholinergic Channel Activators, ChCAs) or inhibiting the function of other subtypes (Cholinergic Channel Inhibitors, ChCIs). An overview of the biology of nAChRs and the rationale for the use of ChCMs for the treatment of dementia related to neurodegenerative diseases are presented, followed by a discussion of lead compounds and compounds under consideration for clinical evaluation.