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Salt and cocrystal formulations are widely used as techniques to improve physicochemical properties of compounds. Some spectrometric techniques to distinguish cocrystals from salts have been reported; however, it has not been possible to adapt these formulations with many compounds, because of limitations, high difficulty, and exceptions. Therefore...
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Endomorphin-1 (Tyr-Pro-Trp-Phe-NH2, EM-1), an endogenous μ-opioid receptor ligand with strong antinociceptive activity, is not in clinical use because of its limited metabolic stability and membrane permeability. In this study, we develop a short-peptide self-delivery system for brain targets with the capability to deliver EM-1 without vehicle. Two...
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Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability globally, while intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator remains the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved therapy for ischemic stroke. The attempts to develop new treatments for acute ischemic stroke meet costly and spectacularly disappointing resu...
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Chafuroside A and chafuroside B are flavone C-glycosides isolated from oolong tea leaves. They have a number of beneficial pharmacological activities related to antiinflammation at various concentrations. However, no crystallographic study of chafurosides has yet been reported. In the present study, the crystal structures of chafuroside A and chafu...
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The word "theranostics," a portmanteau word made by combining "therapeutics" and "diagnostics," refers to a personalized medicine concept. Recently, the word, "radiotheranostics," has also been used in nuclear medicine as a term that refer to the use of radioisotopes for combined imaging and therapy. For radiotheranostics, a diagnostic probe and a ...
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We studied the possibility of using ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) as an excipient to create an amorphous composite that can be administered to animals in preclinical studies of experimental drugs. Three UDCA-based amorphous samples composed of nifedipine (NIF), indomethacin (IND), and naproxen (NAP) were found by screening. The UDCA-based formulation...
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A three-dimensional (3D) printer is a powerful tool that can be used to enhance personalized medicine. A fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer can fabricate 3D objects with different internal structures that provides the opportunity to introduce one or more specific functionalities. In this study, zero-order sustained-release floating tablet w...
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Phthalimido-alkyl-1H-1,2,3-triazole derivatives 3a-d and 4a-d were efficiently synthesized using 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. Anti-inflammatory activity and toxicity studies were performed. The results demonstrated that all the tested compounds reduced carrageenan-induced paw edema and indicated no lethality for toxicity against Artemia sali...
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Thiocyanation of aromatic compounds has been investigated using the combination of 1-chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-(1H)-one (1) and (trimethylsilyl)isothiocyanate (TMSNCS). The reaction with electron rich aromatic compounds proceeded smoothly to provide the thiocyanated products in high yield, while electron deficient heteroaromatic compounds were not s...
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Chlorogenic acid (CGA) has been considered as one of important active components in a number of medicinal herbs. Recently our group demonstrated that caffeoyl salicylate scaffold derived from CGA can be employed for the development of novel anti-inflammatory agents. The most active compound D104 can be a very promising starting point for the furthe...
