... fixation in 4% formalin, all knee joints were cut in the sagittal direction After decalcification and embedding in paraffin, 4-μm sections were cut and stained with haematoxylin and eosin, Elastica ... results obtained for the uptake of 99mTc Discussion using a scale ranging from to sections for the total joint inflammation Histological grading of the knee4 using a scale ranging from to (-) indicates ... retention in the joint [4,5] due to the increased permeability of blood vessels in areas of inflammation [6] To overcome these limitations, we investigated magnetically retainable drug delivery...
... PLGA nanoparticles using ring-opening polymerization method, results in increased residence in blood (intravenous) or airway (intranasal) and enhanced accumulation in target tissues or cells [24] ... drugdelivery vehicle we have tested the sustained release and delivery of FDA approved proteasome inhibitor drug, PS341 in murine lungs by its ability to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa LPS induced ... pulses) on ice in cold room using the T-PER (Pierce Biotech Inc., Rockford, IL) protein lysis buffer containing protease-inhibitor cocktail (Pierce) The protein extracts were suspended in Laemmli’s...
... issues in the manufacturing and biological application of nanoparticles Drugdelivery scientists in industry, academia, and regulatory agencies, as well as students in biomedical engineering, chemical ... chemical engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, and other sciences with an interest indrug delivery, iii iv Preface will find this book useful It can also be used as a textbook fordrugdelivery ... Depending on the route and purpose of drug delivery, the requirements for nanoparticulate systems can vary These aspects are discussed in Chapter for injectable delivery, Chapter for oral delivery, ...
... xylazine (15 mg/kg) and the topical anesthetic proparacaine-HCL (0.5%) was instilled in the eyes A winged infusion needle containing mechanically dissociated human fetal retinal tissue was then inserted ... and this recombinant virus contains a deletion that eliminates the amino terminal 80% of the open reading frame starting just upstream of the start codon (coordinates 33021–34565 in X17403) Two ... used to inoculate SCID mice containing implanted retinal tissue or thymus/liver tissue [4] Briefly, four to eight week old male SCID mice were anesthetized with an i.p injection of ketamine (100...
... polymer nanocapsules for tumor therapy via drugdelivery They prepared drug- loaded polymer nanocapsules according to the outlined approach by preconjugating a model anticancer drug (Dox) to a model ... conditions resembling those within the living cells, nanocapsule uptake by LIM1215 human colorectal tumor cells, and delivery of the anticancer drug into the tumor cells, leading to tumor cell ... carboxypeptidase) with a nearlinear drug release kinetics over the first 24 h ‘‘Moreover, for a drugdelivery vehicle to be highly effective, it is desirable that it should not degrade in the blood stream;...
... spending precious time in examining my thesis and providing valuable comments I am thankful to A/Prof Yang Kun-Lin and A/Prof Chen Shing Bor for being the panel examiners in my oral qualifying ... dominant (54%) in the total driving force for bound state.119 The coarse-grained simulation also revealed the formation of pillar-like intermediates before forming final fiber.120 In summary, most ... secondary structures; with increasing leucine length, L5K also formed a nanofiber Therefore, a change in hydrophobic interaction and swapping of leucine with isoleucine could alter the shape and...
... alginate as particulate carriersfor active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) For example, alginate microspheres had been developed as a drugdelivery system (DDS) for many peptide and protein drugs ... washed before drying and milling Alginates are then extracted by heating the milled seaweed in mild alkali to convert the insoluble alginates in the seaweed to a soluble form The alginate extract ... conventional drugdelivery systems such as injections, capsules and tablets, which necessitates frequent dose administration to maintain the drug concentration in the body within the therapeutic window In...
... micromolding, wire electro discharge machining, laser machining, ion and electro beam machining and dicing were also exploited for miniaturization [19] The surface micromachining and bulk micromachining ... deliver insulin to diabetic hairless rats in vivo using the microneedles in Figure 2.2-(h) [14] The microneedle array was inserted into skin using a high-velocity injector A solution of insulin was ... designed for transdermal therapies to deliver drugs such as insulin and heparin On the other hand, microneedles can also be used for local delivery of other drugs, for example, drugs in anti-restenosis...
... characteristics of the starting materials to the products Increasing milling energy input as indicated by the increasing rotational speed of the beater system resulted in the production of finer products with ... divided into stream and field scanning In stream scanning, particles are examined singly and its interaction with the measuring property of the instrument is taken as a measure of size, whereas in ... feed load for 101 the investigation of the air classifying system Table 11 Particle size of nifedipine batches prepared by sieving, milling 104 and micronisation Table 12 Formula codes for interactive...
... Note 10 MATLAB for Engineers – Applications in Control, Electrical Engineering, IT and Robotics that controller design in R MS using the feedback system as in Fig results in infinite spectrum ... examples of MATLAB usage from different areas of engineering and will be useful for students of Control Engineering or Electrical Engineering to find the necessary enlargement of their theoretical ... following results are valid in general for DPS given on compexshape definition domains in 3D both for continous or discrete distributed quantities, in the space relation as well In the time domain,...
... Note 10 MATLAB for Engineers – Applications in Control, Electrical Engineering, IT and Robotics that controller design in R MS using the feedback system as in Fig results in infinite spectrum ... examples of MATLAB usage from different areas of engineering and will be useful for students of Control Engineering or Electrical Engineering to find the necessary enlargement of their theoretical ... following results are valid in general for DPS given on compexshape definition domains in 3D both for continous or discrete distributed quantities, in the space relation as well In the time domain,...
... hydrogel D networks containing a cell-binding site for ligation of cell-surface integrin receptors and substrates for MMPs, proteases implicated in wound healing and tissue regeneration [51,52] ... II and VI collagen bind matrix receptors (integrins) Type II collagen can also bind to anchorin CII, whereas fibronectin binds to integrins A large proteoglycan aggregate forms when multiple ... (Figure 1) They include structural matrix proteins (collagens, laminin, fibronectin, fibrin, etc.) and molecules modulating cell migration (integrins), cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions...
... goals intissueengineering fields 2.2 Scaffold Materials The first issue with regard to tissueengineering is the choice of suitable materials for scaffolding The materials fortissueengineering ... a high-risk investment, more than $3.5 billion has been invested in worldwide research and development intissueengineering [32, 33] Tissueengineering firms have increased spending at a compound ... AND CROSSLINKING OF COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS AND THE POTENTIAL IN CORNEAL TISSUEENGINEERING APPLICATION ZHONG SHAOPING (M.ENG INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMIC SCIENCES, BEIJING, PRC)...
... photoluminescence, afford additional advantages for tracking and real-time monitoring of drugdelivery efficacy in vivo Intracellular drugdelivery To study the cellular drug delivery, in vitro experiments ... surge in the number of publications in this interesting field Apart from their uses in the cellular imaging with diagnostic effects in nanomedicine [4,5], CNTs are promising drugcarriersin the ... diseases [10] This delivery system provided the first instance for nanocarriers to deliver drugs into neurons in the central nervous system, opening the door for the drugdelivery system for the treatment...
... contained in the original loading solution determined Cu loading, resulting in values ranging between 12 and 16 wt.% based on these reactions conditions XPS was used to further confirm Cu loading ... 215 nm was determined via dynamic light scattering (DLS) ICP MS Cu-loading studies For Cu-loading studies, the Cu-loading solution containing CuSO4 and nanoparticles was dialyzed in 1.5 L of ultrapure ... the differences in modes of internalization for the two forms of Cu Free copper would be taken up by the cell via normal metal trafficking pathways that utilize metal-binding proteins located on...
... integrated in the model [27] to estimate the amount of drug entering the small intestine as a function of time M = D e−Ke(t) where M is the mass of the drug remaining in the stomach, D is the drug ... Nanopharmaceuticals in China Nano Biomed Eng 2009, 1(1):1-18 20 Liu Y, Miyoshi H, Nakamura M: Nanomedicine fordrugdelivery and imaging: a promising avenue for cancer therapy and diagnosis using targeted ... suitable formulations in time for a drug candidate’s in vivo evaluation remains a big challenge In general, formulations made at this early stage need to be prepared on a small scale using common...
... investigating in vitro binding and internalization contained 0.1 mol% Texas red-phosphatidylethanolamine (Molecular Probes Europe) Liposomes used for studying drugdeliveryin vitro and for the ... with drug- containing anti-CD134 liposomes Next, we investigated whether local targeting to CD134+ T cells in the joint-draining PLN would affect the course of actively induced arthritis in the ... a drug targeting system To investigate the possibility for therapeutic intervention in arthritis, antiCD134 liposomes were loaded with a cytostatic drug and administered early in actively induced...
... 4.3.3 In vitro drug release and drug loading of singe drug- loaded micelles 82 4.3.4 In vitro drug release and drug loading of dual drug- loaded micelles 84 4.3.5 Cytotoxicity enhancement of drug- loaded ... in combination therapy depends on many factors such as the therapeutic mechanism of the drugs, the respond of certain cell lines to drugs, the combination ratio A combined chemo -drug system for ... requirements for an ideal drugdelivery system as mentioned above Therefore, multifunctional delivery systems (Figure 1.6) which are aimed for working in a synergistic manner have been investigated in...
... tissue before releasing them in the free form fortissue binding Another alternative would be for molecular modification of paclitaxel based on a pro -drug concept which inhibits tissue binding though ... affects drug transport from the implant through drug loss from interstial tissue across BBB into cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) circulation besides drug diluting effects due to CSF coming into the interstial ... on ice for 10 minutes before adding 50 µl of 2x Reaction Buffer (containing 10 mM DTT) to each sample µl of the mM DEVD-AFC substrate were then added before incubating at 37oC for hours before...
... only a single amine in the polar headgroup, elicited transfection activity Addition of a second amine group and the subsequent increase in rM increased the Novel cytofectins for gene delivery ... cytofectins for gene delivery M Spelios and M Savva Cationic lipidpDNA binding studies Binding curves of EtBr-intercalated pDNA titrated with aliquots of cationic lipid dispersions are shown in Fig ... there was a reduction in plasmid compaction efciency with increasing hydrophobic chain length Interestingly, the transfection-inactive lipid 1,3lb1 was the most efcient at condensing pDNA, with complete...