High-throughput cytochrome P450 inhibition screening via cassette probe-dosing strategy. IV. Validation of a direct injection on-line guard cartridge extraction/tandem mass spectrometry method for simultaneous CYP3A4, 2D6 and 2E1 inhibition assessment

A highly efficient direct injection on-line guard cartridge extraction/tandem mass spectrometry (DI-GCE/MS/MS) method has been validated for high-throughput evaluation of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4, 2D6 and 2E1 inhibition potential via cassette dosing of midazolam, dextromethorphan and chlorzoxazone using human hepatic microsomes and 96-well microtiter plates. Microsomal incubations were terminated with formic acid, centrifuged, and the resulting supernatants were injected for analysis by DI-GCE/MS/MS. Due to the novel use of an extremely short C(18) guard cartridge (4 mm in length), this method exhibits several advantages such as no sample preparation, excellent on-line extraction, short run time (2.5 min), and minimized source contamination and performance deterioration. The DI-GCE/MS/MS method demonstrates acceptable accuracy and precision for the simultaneous quantification of 1'-hydroxymidazolam, dextrorphan and 6-hydroxychlorzoxazone in microsomal incubations. The inhibition potential of CYP3A4, 2D6 and 2E1 has been evaluated using their known selective inhibitors. The IC(50) values measured by the cassette dosing approach (high-throughput) are consistent with those observed by an individual dosing regimen (conventional) and are all in good agreement with the literature values. The results suggest that the cassette probe-dosing strategy may provide an in vitro approach to minimize cost while maximizing throughput of CYP inhibition evaluation of new chemical entities in support of drug discovery and development.     

Trace aluminum determination and sampling problems of archeological bone employing destructive neutron activation analysis

A destructive neutron activation analysis procedure was developed for determining trace aluminum content in bone. It was found that soil contamination can influence the aluninum bone levels in prehistoric bone specimens. These maximum aluninum content values for prehistoric bone are larger than those of modern bone and comparable to aluminum levels present in bone from renal patients.     

TMA as a method of investigation of the phase structure of segmented polyurethanes

A complex of methodical approaches for investigating structural changes under the influence of temperature are presented on the basis of modern concepts of the domain structure of block copolymers. Effects of formation of structure due to phase segregation, crystallization processes and those of thermal homogenization have been considered in connection with the deformational properties of polymers. One and the same polymer appears to have quite different phase structures and properties when obtained by altering its thermal conditions. Thermomechanical analysis is shown to be a most efficient technique for investigating the changes in the phase structure of a wide series of polyether(ester)urethanes and -urethaneureas.

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Zusammenfassung Ein Komplex methodischer Näherungen zur Untersuchung von Strukturänderungen unter dem Einfluss von Wärme werden vorgeführt, welche auf den modernen Konzepten der Gebietstruktur von Block-Kopolymeren beruhen. Die Effekte der Strukturbildung durch Phasensegregation, Kristallisationsvorgänge und thermische Homogenisierung wurden im Zusammenhang mit den Deformationseigenschaften der Polymeren in Betracht gezogen. Das gleiche Polymer scheint ganz verschiedene Phasenstrukturen und Eigenschaften zu haben, wenn es unter veränderten thermischen Bedingungen erhalten wird. Es wird gezeigt, dass die thermomechanische Analyse eine sehr wirksame Technik zur Untersuchung der Phasenstrukturänderungen einer ganzen Reihe von Polyäther(ester)urethanen und -urethankarbamiden ist.

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Résumé On présente un ensemble de méthodes d'approximation pour l'étude des variations structurales sous l'influence de la température, reposant sur des concepts modernes sur la structure en domaine des copolymères en bloc.Les effets de la ségrégation des phases, de la cristallisation et de l'homogénéisation thermique ont été examinés en connexion avec les propriétés de déformation des polymères. La même polymère semble avoir des structures de phases et des propriétés tout à fait différentes, quand il est obtenu sous différentes conditions thermiques. On montre sur une large série de polyéther (ester)uréthanes et -uréthane urées que l'analyse thermomécanique est une technique très efficace pour étudier les variations de la structure des phases.

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The vibrational relaxation of H2. I. Experimental measurements of the rate of relaxation by H2, He,Ne, Ar,and Kr

The vibrational relaxation of gaseous H₂ in mixtures with He, Ne, Ar, and Kr was studied by the laser Schlieren technique in incidents shock waves at 1350–3000 K. From the results of 155 experiments the following standard relaxation times for self-relaxation of H₂ and relaxation of H₂ by He, Ne, Ar and Kr were obtained:

pτ is in atm s, and the qouted uncertainties are standard deviations. The results for H₂/H₂ and H₂/Ar are in very good agreement with previous results of Kiefer and Lutz, and the extrapolated for H₂/H₂, H₂/He and H₂/Ar agree very well with low temperature data Ducuing.The linear mixture rule for a additivity of relaxation rates was found to hold, to within experimental accuracy, for the mixtures studied in the present work.     

High-throughput cytochrome P450 (CYP) inhibition screening via a cassette probe-dosing strategy. VI. Simultaneous evaluation of inhibition potential of drugs on human hepatic isozymes CYP2A6, 3A4, 2C9, 2D6 and 2E1

The inhibition potential of drugs towards five major human hepatic cytochrome P450 (CYP) isozymes (CYP2A6, 3A4, 2C9, 2D6, and 2E1) was investigated via cassette dosing of the five probe substrates (coumarin, midazolam, tolbutamide, dextromethorphan, and chlorzoxazone) in human liver microsomes using a 96-well plate format. After microsomal incubations had been terminated with formic acid, the five marker metabolites (7-hydroxycoumarin, 1'-hydroxymidazolam, 4-hydroxytolbutamide, dextrorphan, and 6-hydroxychlorzoxazone) were simultaneously quantified using direct injection/online guard cartridge extraction/tandem mass spectrometry (DI-GCE/MS/MS). Several advantages resulted from the use of a short C(18) guard cartridge (4 mm in length) for DI-GCE/MS/MS, including minimal sample preparation, fast online extraction, short analysis time (2.5 min), and minimal source contamination. In addition, this method demonstrated an inter-day accuracy range from -8.7 - 7.4% with a precision less than 8.3% for the quantification of all the marker metabolites. The inhibition assay for the five CYP isozymes was evaluated using their known selective inhibitors via individual and cassette dosing of the probe substrates. The IC(50) values measured via cassette dosing were consistent with those observed via individual dosing, which were all in agreement with the reported values. In addition, the validated assay was used to evaluate the inhibitory potential of 23 generic drugs (randomly selected) towards the five CYP isozymes. The results suggest the integration of the cassette dosing strategy and the DI-GCE/MS/MS method can provide a reliable in vitro approach to screening the inhibitory potential of new chemical entities, with maximal throughput and cost-effectiveness, in support of drug discovery and development.     

Locally analytic distributions and

In this paper we study continuous representations of locally -analytic groups in locally convex -vector spaces, where is a finite extension of and is a spherically complete nonarchimedean extension field of . The class of such representations includes both the smooth representations of Langlands theory and the finite dimensional algebraic representations of , along with interesting new objects such as the action of on global sections of equivariant vector bundles on -adic symmetric spaces. We introduce a restricted category of such representations that we call ``strongly admissible' and we show that, when is compact, our category is anti-equivalent to a subcategory of the category of modules over the locally analytic distribution algebra of . As an application we prove the topological irreducibility of generic members of the -adic principal series for . Our hope is that our definition of strongly admissible representation may be used as a foundation for a general theory of continuous -valued representations of locally -analytic groups.

     

Critical broadening of EPR line in molecular crystals of free radicals

Using the EPR method, the members of free radicals of the hydrazyl group have been studied within a wide temperature range. In all the samples at temperatures 0.05?3K the existence of a phase transition to an antiferromagnetic state is found out. Dynamics of critical fluctuations near the phase transition have been investigated. Two regimes of critical spin relaxation are discovered.     

The NO- and NO2-catalyzed decomposition of I2 in shock waves

Measurements of the NO-catalyzed dissociation of I₂ in Ar in incident shock waves were carried out in the temperature range of 700°-1520°K and at total concentrations of 5 × 10^?6-6 × 10^?5 mol/cm³, using ultraviolet-visible absorption techniques to monitor the disappearance of I₂. It was shown that the main reaction responsible for the disappearance under these conditions is I₂ + NO → INO + I, for which a rate coefficient of (2.9 ± 0.5) × 10¹³ exp[-(18.0 ± 0.6 kcal/mol)/RT] cm²/mol·sec was determined. The INO formed dissociates rapidly in a subsequent reaction. The reaction, therefore, constitutes a “chemical model” for a “thermal collisional release mechanism.” Preliminary measurements of the rate coefficient for I₂ + NO₂ → INO₂ + I are also presented. Combined with information on the reverse reactions obtained in earlier room temperature experiments, these results lead to accurate values of ΔH°_f for INO and INO₂ equal to 29.7 ± 0.5 and 15.9 ± 1 kcal/mol, respectively.     

Asymmetric empirical similarity

The paper suggests a similarity function for applications of empirical similarity theory in which the notion of similarity is asymmetric. I propose defining similarity in terms of a quasimetric. I suggest a particular quasimetric and explore the properties of the empirical similarity model given this function. The proposed function belongs to the class of quasimetrics induced by skewed norms. Finally, I provide a skewness axiom that, when imposed in lieu of the symmetry axiom in the main result of Billot et al. (2008), characterizes an exponential similarity function based on a skewed norm.