The effect of additives on naltrexone hydrochloride release and solvent removal rate from an injectable in situ forming PLGA implant

Biodegradable in situ forming drug delivery systems for naltrexone release are promising for post‐treatment of drug addicts. The effect of two different additives, glycerol and ethyl heptanoate, on the naltrexone hydrochloride release and solvent removal from a poly(DL ‐lactide‐co‐glycolide) (PLGA) injectable implant is presented in this article. The experimental results showed that the in vitro initial release of the drug was decreased in the presence of these additives. Ethyl heptanoate was, however, more effective than glycerol and increasing the amount of additives in PLGA solution up to 5% (w/w) resulted in a decrease of initial naltrexone release rate up to 50%. The morphological evaluation of implants using scanning electron microscopy indicated that the additives generated a less porous structure together with a finger‐like to sponge‐like transition. The solvent removal profiles of injectable implants, which can be well described by thermogravimetric and morphological analysis, were in good agreement with drug release profiles. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Extrapolated positive definite and positive semi-definite splitting methods for solving non-Hermitian positive definite linear systems

Applications of Mathematics - Recently, Na Huang and Changfeng Ma in (2016) proposed two kinds of typical practical choices of the PPS method. In this paper, we extrapolate two versions of the PPS...     

Nano-Fe3O4 encapsulated-silica particles bearing sulfonic acid groups as a magnetically separable catalyst for green and efficient synthesis of functionalized pyrimido[4, 5-b]quinolines and indeno fused pyrido[2, 3-d]pyrimidines in water

The magnetic nanoparticles supported silica sulfuric acid was used as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of pyrimido[4,5-b]quinolines and indeno fused pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines in water. The desired products were obtained in excellent yields. Fe3O4@SiO2-SO3H was readily recovered using an external magnet and could be reused several times without significant loss of reactivity.     

SnCl2/nano SiO2：A green and reusable heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of polyfunctionalized 4H-pyrans

A highly efficient and general method for the synthesis of polyfunctionalized 4H-pyrans is established through a one-pot multicomponent cyclocondensation of aromatic aldehydes with CH acids, malononitrile and ethyl acetoacetate using nano silica supported tin (Ⅱ) chloride as a catalyst. In this method SnCl2/nano SiO2 was used as green and reusable catalyst. Excellent yields, short reaction times, simple workup, and inexpensiveness and commercially availability of the catalyst are the advantages of this method.     

Reversible electrochemical modulation of fluorescence and selective sensing of ascorbic acid using a DCIP-CA-CdTe QD system

The reversible electrochemical modulation of fluorescence and selective sensing of ascorbic acid has been achieved using a DCIP-CA-CdTe QD system. Ascorbic acid could be detected over a linear range from 2.33 μM to 56.49 μM, with a detection limit of 0.50 μM.     

Tin oxide nanoparticles (NP-SnO2): preparation, characterization and their catalytic application in the Knoevenagel condensation

Tin oxide (SnO₂) nanoparticles were synthesized by modified thermal decomposition process. Taguchi analysis was used and three important synthetic factors, molar concentration ratio of [NaNO₃]/[SnCl₄], temperature and time of calcinations, which affect the size of SnO₂ particles, were studied. The optimal conditions were determined using Taguchi robust design method and nano-sized SnO₂ particles (~2 nm) were obtained. Nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and UV–visible spectroscopy techniques. The results show that tin oxide nanoparticles could be one of the most active and reusable catalysts in the Knoevenagel condensation. Different active methylene group compounds and diverse range of aldehydes were chosen to react in the presence of tin oxide nanoparticles at ambient temperature at solvent-free condition (SFC) with excellent isolated yields.     

CdSe/ZnS quantum dot-Cytochrome c bioconjugates for selective intracellular O2˙⁻ sensing

We demonstrate that the coupling system of negatively capped CdSe/ZnS QDs with an oxidized Cytochrome c (Cyt c) is capable of the fluorescent imaging of a superoxide radical (O(2)˙?) with high sensitivity and specificity in living cells, without interference from other Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) or relevant intracellular components.     

Cohen–Macaulay Loci of Modules

The Cohen–Macaulay locus of any finite module over a noetherian local ring A is studied, and it is shown that it is a Zariski-open subset of Spec A in certain cases. In this connection, the rings whose formal fibres over certain prime ideals are Cohen–Macaulay are studied.     

Associated radical ideals of monomial ideals

Algebraic and combinatorial properties of a monomial ideal are studied in terms of its associated radical ideals. In particular, we present some applications to the symbolic powers of square-free monomial ideals.