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Predicting Aqueous Solubility Of Pharmaceutical Agents By Solid Dispersion Prepared By Solvent Evaporation Method, Karthik Reddy Patlolla
Predicting Aqueous Solubility Of Pharmaceutical Agents By Solid Dispersion Prepared By Solvent Evaporation Method, Karthik Reddy Patlolla
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Solubility of active pharmaceutical agents is a crucial process that determines drug absorption and ultimately its bioavailability. Many of the new therapeutically beneficial compounds discovered are lipophilic requiring various solubility enhancement strategies to improve their solubility. Among these strategies, solubility enhancement using solid dispersions is a leading method. To obtain a desirable increase in the solubility of a poorly-soluble compound, a good understanding of the molecular descriptors influencing the enhancement of solubility is essential. Therefore, the major research objective was to determine the descriptors which significantly influence the solubility enhancement by solid dispersions. After enhancing the solubility of selected poorly-soluble …
Turning Stealth Liposomes Into Cationic Liposomes For Anticancer Drug Delivery, Vijay Gyanani
Turning Stealth Liposomes Into Cationic Liposomes For Anticancer Drug Delivery, Vijay Gyanani
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Targeting the anticancer agents selectively to cancer cells is desirable to improve the efficacy and to reduce the side effects of anticancer therapy. Previously reported passive tumor targeting by PEGylated liposomes (stealth liposomes) have resulted in their higher tumor accumulation. However their interaction with cancer cells has been minimal due to the steric hindrance of the PEG coating. This dissertation reports two approaches to enhance the interaction of stealth liposomes with cancer cells. First, we designed a lipid-hydrazone-PEG conjugate that removes the PEG coating at acidic pH as in the tumor interstitium. However, such a conjugate was highly unstable on …
The Effects Of Indomethacin On A Strain Of Fibroblasts Cultivated In Vitro, John Thomas Mccloskey
The Effects Of Indomethacin On A Strain Of Fibroblasts Cultivated In Vitro, John Thomas Mccloskey
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Man has always searched for greater understanding of himself and his environment. As a result, much scientific investigation has been directed towards the understanding of the life process. In recent years, such scientific inquiry has become increasingly focused on the fundamental biochemical events taking place at the cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels. In the course of investigation into the nature of living things, research has often necessitated the development of new techniques and investigational tools to serve as experimental systems. Very often such new methods have made possible the discovery of previously unknown processes. One very interesting and useful investigational …