Predicting substrates of the human breast cancer resistance protein using a support vector machine method.

Background: Human breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) is an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) efflux transporter that confers multidrug resistance in cancers and also plays an important role in the absorption, distribution and elimination of drugs. Prediction as to if drugs or new molecular entities are BCRP substrates should afford a cost-effective means that can help evaluate the pharmacokinetic properties, efficacy, and safety of these drugs or drug candidates. At present, limited studies have been done to develop in silico prediction models for BCRP substrates.

Predicting P-glycoprotein-mediated drug transport based on support vector machine and three-dimensional crystal structure of P-glycoprotein.

Human P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is an ATP-binding cassette multidrug transporter that confers resistance to a wide range of chemotherapeutic agents in cancer cells by active efflux of the drugs from cells. P-gp also plays a key role in limiting oral absorption and brain penetration and in facilitating biliary and renal elimination of structurally diverse drugs. Thus, identification of drugs or new molecular entities to be P-gp substrates is of vital importance for predicting the pharmacokinetics, efficacy, safety, or tissue levels of drugs or drug candidates.

Cyclodextrin KnowledgeBase a web-based service managing CD-ligand complexation data.

Cyclodextrins are cyclic oligosaccharides that are able to form water-soluble inclusion complexes with small molecules. Because of their complexing ability, they are widely applied in food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. In this paper we describe the development of a free web-service, Cyclodextrin KnowledgeBase: ( http://www.

Determination of estredox, a compound with sustained estradiol function, and its impurity profile by HPLC.

The HPLC methods described here for the assay and purity test of Estredox (E2CDS), a molecule with a redox-based, brain-targeted chemical delivery system for estradiol, allow reliable conclusions to be made on the potency and purity of API and E2CDS/HPCD complex samples. Extensive work was done to isolate and characterize the major, potential contaminants, and ensure the required stability of solutions of E2CDS, an inherently labile compound by design. Both the sample solvent and the eluent were thoroughly tested to avoid unwanted changes in sample solutions during analyses.

[The fifty-year old whole body autoradiography].

In this paper the method of whole body autoradiography is reviewed. Methods of obtaining sections and visualization of the latent images are described. Features of detection methods are compared and the evaluation methods of autoradiograms are given.