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A talidomida (TLD) é um fármaco usado no tratamento de lesões associadas ao eritema nodoso leprótico, úlceras aftóides em pacientes HIV+/AIDS, algumas doenças crônico-degenerativas e mieloma múltiplo refratário à quimioterapia. Porém, apresenta problemas relacionados à sua farmacocinética, é pouco hidrossolúvel, e, por conseguinte, apresenta lenta e variável absorção no trato gastrintestinal. Uma proposta inédita que pode ser de interesse clínico é a formulação de uma dispersão sólida para a via oral, que permita a modulação da dissolução e biodisponibilidade da talidomida. O objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver e caracterizar dispersões sólidas (DS) contendo carreadores autoemulsionáveis e TLD, veiculado em cápsulas duras, a fim de melhorar as propriedades biofarmacêuticas do fármaco. Foram desenvolvidas formulações de TLD dispersa em Gelucire® (GEL) ou Kolliphor® (TPGS), associadas ou não a um adjuvante que em geral, diminui a recristalização de fármacos, a polivilpirrolidona (PVP K30). A técnica utilizada para preparar as DS foi o método de evaporação de solvente. A caracterização físico-química foi realizada por microscopia eletrônica de varredura (MEV), difração de raios-X (DRX), calorimetria exploratória diferencial (DSC) acoplada a células de aquecimento (Hot Stage), sugeriu formação de DS semicristalinas. A espectroscopia Infravermelha (IV), juntamente com DRX, demonstrou que a porção cristalina remanescente corresponde ao polimorfo α. A dissolução in vitro do fármaco a partir das DS foi significativamente melhor quando comparada ao fármaco isolado ou ao controle com amido. No tempo limite de 120 minutos, as DS tiveram percentual de dissolução em torno de 90%, enquanto o fármaco isolado de 50%, e o controle com amido de 70%. O estudo de solubilidade aquosa com diferentes excessos de fármaco foi realizado com o intuito de verificar se as DS eram capazes de manter o aumento da solubilidade aparente (estado de supersaturação) por um longo período de tempo. Foram obtidos incrementos da solubilidade aparente de até 3x superiores a do fármaco isolado, mas a capacidade solubilizante das DS mostrou-se saturável. Como conclusão, os resultados das análises físico-químicas, perfil de dissolução e solubilidade sugerem que a associação da talidomida com os carreadores autoemulsionáveis proporcionou melhora nas propriedades biofarmacêuticas da TLD, e criam perspectivas de investigação futuras, tais como a avaliação da permeabilidade intestinal in vitro. / Thalidomide (TLD) is a drug used for the treatment of lesions associated to the erythema nodosum leprosum, aphthous ulcers in HIV + / AIDS patients, some chronic diseases, and multiple myeloma refractory to chemotherapy. However, the drug is poorly aqueous soluble, and therefore presents slow and variable absorption in the gastrointestinal tract. An innovative proposal, which could be of clinical interest, is the formulation of oral solid dispersions, which allow modulation of dissolution, solubility, and, therefore, bioavailability of thalidomide. The objective of this study was to develop and characterize solid dispersions (DS) containing self-emulsifying carriers and TLD, filled in hard capsules, aiming to improve the biopharmaceutical properties of the drug. TLD has been dispersed in Gelucire® (GEL) or Kolliphor® (TPGS), associated or not to an excipient that usually decreases the drug recrystallization, polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP K30). The technique used for preparing the DS was the solvent evaporation method. The physicochemical characterization by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) coupled to heating cells (Hot Stage), indicated the formation of semi crystalline DS. Infrared spectroscopy (IR), together with XRD, showed that the remaining crystalline portion corresponds to the polymorph α. The in vitro dissolution of the drug from the DS was significantly higher when compared to the drug alone, or the control with starch. At 120 min, the percentage of TLD dissolved from DS was around 90%, while drug alone showed 50% and drug+starch showed 70% dissolution. The aqueous solubility study performed with different drug excess assessed whether the DS were able to maintain the increase in apparent solubility (supersaturation state) for a long period of time. Increments around 3x were obtained in the apparent solubility, but the solubilizing ability of DS was found to be saturable. In conclusion, the results of physicochemical analysis, dissolution profile and aqueous solubility suggest that the association of thalidomide with self-emulsifying carriers provided improvement on the biopharmaceutical properties of TLD, and opened future research perspectives, such as the assessment of intestinal permeability in vitro.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-12-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:25:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mancuso_dn_dr_araca.pdf: 1122957 bytes, checksum: f6980a1d234a3c5f607d0c22249241c6 (MD5) / Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar a absorção, solubilidade, dureza e alteração de cor de reembasadores resilientes após termociclagem. Foram utilizados 4 materiais reembasadores resilientes, sendo 1 à base de resina (Trusoft) e 3 à base de silicone (Dentusil, Ufi Gel P e Ufi Gel SC). Foram confeccionadas 80 amostras no total, sendo que metade delas foi submetida ao teste de absorção e solubilidade e a outra metade, aos testes de dureza Shore A e alteração de cor. Todas as amostras foram submetidas à 2000 ciclos de termociclagem. O Dentusil apresentou os seguintes valores: Shore A (40,50); ΔE (0,83); absorção (0,30); solubilidade (0,01). Já o Trusoft apresentou os seguintes valores: Shore A (18,50); ΔE (3,92); absorção (1,48); solubilidade (1,26). O UfiGel P e SC apresentaram resultados semelhantes e intermediarios para os 3 testes. Portanto conclui-se que todas as propriedades estão intimamente relacionadas e que quanto maior for a dureza inicial do material, menor será a absorção e solubilidade e consequentemente menor será a alteração de cor. / The purpose of this study was to investigate absorption, solubility, hardness and colour change of 4 soft liners after thermocycling. A resin base (Trusoft) and three silicone base (Dentusil, Ufi Gel P e Ufi Gel SC) were used on this research. A total of eighty samples were manufactured: forty for absorption and solubility test and forty for both hardness and colour change tests. All samples were subjected to 2000 hours of thermocycling. Dentusil showed the following values: Shore A hardness (40.50), colour change (ΔE=0.83), absorption (0.30) and solubility (0.01). Trusoft, on the other hand, showed the following values: Shore A hardness (18.50), colour change (ΔE=3.92), absorption (1.48) and solubility (1.26). Both UfiGel P and SC showed similar results for all three tests. All properties are linked and as big is the initial hardness, small will be both absorption and solubility and consequently small will be the colour change.

Master of Science / Food Science Institute - Animal Sciences & Industry / Jayendra K. Amamcharla / High-protein dairy powders are added to a variety of products to improve nutritional, functional, and sensory properties. To have the intended properties, the powder must be soluble. The solubility is effected by processing storage, and dissolution conditions, as well as the type of powder. Various tests are used to determine solubility, but they are time-consuming and subjective. Literature has shown that ultrasound spectroscopy can characterize the solubility of high-protein dairy powders, but it requires expensive equipment and skilled technicians. An economical alternative is to use an ultrasonic flaw detector, which is commonly used in the construction industry. For this study, an ultrasonic flaw detector based method was developed to characterize the solubility of high protein dairy powders. To evaluate the method, commercially available milk protein concentrate (MPC) was obtained and stored at 25°C and 40°C and stored for four weeks to produce powders with different dissolution properties. To test the powders, a 5% (w/w) concentration of powder was added to water. A focused beam reflectance measurement (FBRM) and solubility index were used as a reference method. After powder addition, data was collected at regular intervals for 1800s. The FBRM and solubility index showed that the powders lost solubility as the storage time and temperature increased. From the ultrasound data, one parameter was extracted from the relative velocity and three parameters were extracted from the attenuation data. A soluble powder had a low relative velocity standard deviation from 900-1800s, high area under the attenuation curve, low peak time, and high peak height. The ultrasonic flaw detector detected differences in solubility before the solubility index. When testing MPC with protein contents ranging from 85% to 90% and at a dissolution temperature of 40°C and 48°C, data from the ultrasonic flaw detector and FBRM showed that the solubility decreased as the protein content increased and increasing the dissolution temperature improved the solubility of the powder. Overall, the ultrasonic flaw detector can characterize the solubility of high-protein dairy powders.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Physics / Artem Rudenko / Christopher M. Sorensen / The motion of electrons in atoms, molecules, and solids in the presence of intense electromagnetic radiation is an important research topic in physics and physical chemistry because of its fundamental nature and numerous practical applications, ranging from precise machining of materials to optical control of chemical reactions and light-driven electronic devices. Mechanisms of light-matter interactions critically depend on the dimensions of the irradiated system and evolve significantly from single atoms or molecules to the macroscopic bulk. Nanoparticles provide the link between these two extremes. In this thesis, I take advantage of this bridge to study light-matter interactions as a function of nanoparticle size, shape, and composition. I present here three discrete, but interconnected, experiments contributing to our knowledge of nanoparticle properties and their response to intense, short-pulsed light fields. First, I investigate how individual nanoparticles interact with each other in solution, studying their temperature-dependent solubility. The interaction potential between 5.5nm gold nanoparticles, ligated by an alkanethiol was found to be -0.165eV, in reasonable agreement with a phenomenological model. The other two experiments explore ultrafast dynamics driven by intense femtosecond lasers in isolated, gas-phase metallic and dielectric nanoparticles. Photoelectron momentum imaging is applied to study the response of gold, silica, and gold-shell/silica-core nanoparticles (ranging from single to several hundred nanometers in size) with near-infrared (NIR), 25 fs laser pulses in the intensity range of 10¹¹ - 10¹⁴ W/cm². These measurements, which constitute the bulk of my graduate work, reveal the complex interplay between the external optical field and the induced near-field of the nanoparticle, resulting in the emission of very energetic electrons that are much faster than those emitted from isolated atoms or molecules exposed to the same light pulses. The highest photoelectron energies (“cutoffs”) were measured as a function of laser intensity, nanoparticle material and size. We found that the energy cutoffs increase monotonically with laser intensity and nanoparticle size, except for the gold/silica hybrid where the plasmon resonance response modifies this behavior at low intensities. The measured photoelectron spectra for metallic nanoparticles display a large energy enhancement over silica. Finally, the last part of this thesis explores the possibility to apply time-resolved x-ray scattering as a probe of the ultrafast dynamics in isolated nanoparticles driven by very intense (~10¹⁵ W/cm²) NIR laser radiation. To do this, I developed and built a nanoparticle source capable of injecting single, gas-phase nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution into the laser focus. We used femtosecond x-ray pulses from an x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) to map the evolution of the laser-irradiated nanoparticle. The ultrafast dynamics were observed in the single-shot x-ray diffraction patterns measured as a function of delay between the NIR and x-ray pulses, which allows for femtosecond temporal and nanometer spatial resolution. We found that the intense IR laser pulse rapidly ionizes the nanoparticle, effectively turning it into a nanoplasma within less than a picosecond, and observed signatures of the nanoparticle surface softening on a few hundred-femtosecond time scale.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-02-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:12:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mendonca_aam_me_arafo.pdf: 391168 bytes, checksum: 5b48b4c877101be48a53fececa7c6066 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A presente pesquisa avaliou o efeito citotóxico de diferentes materiais dentários sobre células de linhagem odontoblástica MDPC-23 em cultura. Para isto, corpos-de-prova com dimensões de 4mm de diâmetro e 2 mm de profundidade foram confeccionados com os seguintes materiais: hidróxido de cálcio (Hydro C - Grupo HCa); RelyX Luting (Grupo RL); Vitrebond (Grupo VB); e RelyX Unicem (Grupo RU). Cada espécime foi imerso em meio de cultura não suplementado com soro fetal bovino (MC-SFB) e incubado pelos períodos de 24 horas ou 7 dias. Células odontoblastóides MDPC-23 foram semeadas (3x104 células/cm2) em pratos de acrílico com 24 compartimentos e incubados por 72 horas, sendo que após este período, o meio de cultura completo (DMEM) foi substituído pelos extratos obtidos de cada material experimental. Após incubação adicional de 24 horas, a atividade da enzima desidrogenase succíninca das células foi avaliada através do teste de MTT. No grupo controle, o meio de cultura foi substituído pelo MC-SFB fresco (sem tratamento). Para os períodos de 24 horas, os grupos HCa, RL, VB e RU apresentaram valores de redução no metabolismo celular de 91,52%; 78,17%; 89,14%; e 2,64%, respectivamente, quando comparados com o grupo controle (DMEM), o qual não reduziu o metabolismo celular. Com relação ao período experimental de 7 dias, os valores de redução na atividade metabólica para os grupos HCa, RL, VB e RU foram de 91,13%, 79,04%, 87,27% e 10,51%, respectivamente. Segundo a análise estatística de Kruskall-Wallis complementada pelo teste de Mann-Whitney não houve diferença entre os grupos HCa e VB, os quais foram os materiais mais citotóxicos em ambos os períodos avaliados. RU foi o cimento menos tóxico, sendo que não houve diferença estatisticamente significante com o grupo controle no período de 24 horas... / The present in vitro study evaluated the cytotoxic effects of different dental materials on the odontoblast-like cells MDPC-23. For this purpose, round samples (2-mm thick and 4-mm in diameter) were prepared with the following experimental materials: calcium hydroxide (Hydro C - Group HCa); RelyXTM Luting Cement (Group RL); Vitrebond (Group VB); and RelyXTM Unicem (Group RU). The samples were placed in fresh culture medium with no fetal bovine serum (DMEM-FBS) and incubated for 24 hours or 7 days at 37°C with 5% CO2, and 95% air. The odontoblast cells were plated (3x104 cells/cm2) in wells of five 24-wells dishes and incubated for 72 hours. After this period, the complete culture medium (DMEM) was replaced by the extracts obtained from every sample. The cells in contact with the extracts were incubated for additional 24 hours. The MTT Assay was carried out to evaluate the cell metabolism. In control group (DMEM) the nontreated fresh culture medium (DMEM-FBS) was applied on the cultured cells. At 24 hours period, the experimental materials HCa, RL, VB and RU decreased the mitochondrial respiration by: 91,52%; 78,17%; 89,14%; and 2,64%, respectively. At 7 days, the reduction of the cell metabolism for groups HCa, RL, VB and RU was: 91,13%; 79,04%; 87,27%; and 10,51%, respectively. The statistical analysis of Kruskal-Wallis complemented by the Mann-Whitney test demonstrated there was no statistical difference between the groups HCa and VB which presented the highest cytotoxic effects on the MDPC-23 cells. On the other hand, no difference statistically significant was observed between RU and DMEM, at 24 hours period. The ranking of cytotoxicity observed at 24 hours and 7 days was: HCa=VB>RL>RU=DMEM and HCa=VB>RL>RU>DMEM, respectively. Based upon the scientific data presented in this in vitro study, it was concluded... (Complete abstract, click electronic address below).

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Thesis (MTech (Chemistry))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. / Crystal engineering involves the manipulation of intermolecular interactions to design functionalised crystalline materials and has proved to be an effective tool for the modification of physicochemical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). In the first section of this study, the aim was to systematically influence the rate of dissolution of a highly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredient using crystal engineering principles. Salicylic acid (SA) was employed as a model API to form multicomponent crystals with a series of selected cinchona alkaloids, namely quinine (QUIN), quinidine (QUID), cinchonine (CINC), cinchonidine (CIND), N-benzylquininium chloride (NBQUIN), N-benzylcinchonidinium chloride (NBCIND) and N-benzylcinchoninium chloride (NBCINC). The resulting novel crystalline forms were found to be salts, and were characterised using single crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis. The dissolution profiles of the salicylate salts, measured from an aqueous media using high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy, show a significant decrease in the rate of dissolution of SA. Subsequently, Hirshfeld surface analysis was used as a tool for quantitative and qualitative comparison of the crystal structures. This study indicates that the rate of dissolution can be successfully influenced by methodically adding extra hydrophobic groups onto the coformer. In the second section, we applied the information obtained from the SA studies to acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin, ASA). We sought to improve its thermal stability and dissolution via the formation of new solid forms with the aforementioned cinchona alkaloids. We successfully synthesized a novel drug-drug salt of an analgesic, non-steroidal antiinflammatory and antipyretic drug (ASA), and an antimalarial and analgesic drug (QUIN). The salt was formed both by using solution methods and liquid assisted grinding - a green chemistry technique. The salt exhibited physicochemical properties different from the parent drugs, and a reduced rate of dissolution. / National Research Foundation(NRF)