Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:13:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MiguelASF_DISSERT.pdf: 792186 bytes, checksum: d323fa6e666b8282771fcc51f7c2abcc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-11 / The aim of this work was to evaluate how an aqueous micellar system containing Amphotericin B (AmB) and sodium deoxycholate (DOC) can be rebuilt after heating treatment. Also a review of the literature about the new physicochemical and biological properties of this new system was carried out. Afterwards, heated (AmB-DOC-H) and unheated (AmB-DOC) micelles were subsequently diluted at four different concentrations (50mg.L-1, 5mg.L-1, 0.5mg.L-1 and 0.05mg.L-1) to perform the physicochemical study and, then, the pharmacotoxicity assay, in which two cell models were used for the in vitro experiments, Red Blood Cells (RBC) from human donors and Candida parapisilosis (Cp). While potassium (K+) and hemoglobin leakage from RBC were the used parameters to evaluate the acute and chronic toxicity, respectively, the efficacy of AmB-DOC and AmB-DOC-H were assessed by K+ leakage and cell survival rate from Cp. The spectral study revealed a slight change on the aggregate peak from 327nm to 323nm for AmB-DOC-H compared to AmB-DOC. Concerning the toxicity, although AmB-DOC and AmB-DOC-H presented different behavior for hemoglobin leakage, AmB-DOC produced higher leakage than AmB-DOC-H at high concentrations (from 5mg.L-1) with values tending to zero. However, concerning K+ leakage, both AmB-DOC and AmB-DOC-H, showed similar profile for both cell models, RBC and Cp (p<0,05). AmB-DOC-H and AmB-DOC also revealed similar profile of activity against Cp with equivalent survival rate. In short, the AmB-DOC-H showed much less toxicity than AmB-DOC, but remained as active as the late one against fungal cell. Therefore, the results highlight the importance of this new procedure as a simple, inexpensive and safe alternative to produce a new kind of micelle system for treatment of systemic fungal infections / A anfotericina B micelar (AmB) ? um importante agente antimicrobiano utilizado contra infec??es f?ngicas sist?micas. No entanto, seu uso ? limitado devido a sua alta toxicidade. Formula??es de anfotericina B em estruturas lip?dicas s?o menos t?xicas, por?m apresentam elevado custo. A AmB em solu??o aquosa possui formas monom?ricas e agregadas, estes ?ltimos s?o os respons?veis pelas rea??es adversas. Este trabalho avaliou a AmB desoxicolato de s?dio (AmB-DOC) e AmB aquecida (AmBDOC- H) em rela??o a sua toxicidade e atividade, bem como perfil de seu espectro em quatro concentra??es diferentes (50mg.L-1, 5mg.L-1, 0,5mg.L-1 e 0.05mg.L-1). O aquecimento controlado das solu??es AmB levou a altera??es no espectro de 327nm AmB (agregados) para 323nm (superagregados). Al?m disso, quando as amostras foram submetidas ao processo de dilui??o, apresentam o mesmo comportamento espectrofotom?trico: ambas as amostras diminuem o pico das formas auto-associadas at? apresentarem apenas mon?meros com pico em 409nm, o que sugere um processo de libera??o de mon?meros por concentra??o-dependente. No que diz respeito ? toxicidade, AmB-DOC e AmB-DOC-H apresentaram comportamentos distintos: a taxa de libera??o de hemoglobina de hem?cias para AmB-DOC, em altas concentra??es, foi muito superior a AmB-DOC-H, cujos valores tendem a zero (p <0,05). J? em rela??o ? libera??o de K+ ambas as amostras apresentaram perfil semelhante. Sobre a atividade, AmB-H mant?m o mesmo perfil da AmB-DOC. Em suma, a AmB-DOC-H ? muito menos t?xica do que AmB-DOC e mantendo a atividade. Sendo este procedimento uma alternativa simples, de baixo custo e segura para, em um o futuro pr?ximo, ser utilizada no tratamento de infec??es f?ngicas sist?micas