The study of possibility to elevate antitumor activity and decrease of systemic toxic effects of cisplatin by its binding with deliganded albumin.

Aim: To evaluate antitumor and toxic action of cisplatin (CP) in non-bound form and in a complex with deliganded albumin.

Methods: To study complex-formation between CP and albumin, differential scanning and isothermic flow microcalorimetry were used. For quantitive evaluation of albumin-bound CP, the method of ultrafiltration was applied.

Effect of protein-bound uraemic toxins on the thermodynamic characteristics of human albumin.

The ability of albumin to bind drugs and other lipophilic organic acids is decreased in chronic renal failure by the accumulation of albumin-bound uraemic toxins such as hippuric acid, indoxyl sulphate and 3-carboxy-4-methyl-5-propyl-2-furanpropanoic acid (CMPF). This furan acid is the most highly bound and is not removed by haemodialysis. The inhibitory effects of these three uraemic toxins on the interaction of three marker ligands sodium octanoate (for medium chain fatty acids), salicylic acid and phenol red (bilirubin site/site I) with albumin have been investigated by differential scanning microcalorimetry and flow microcalorimetry.

[The repellent action of the Mannich bases of phenol methoxy derivatives for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas].

Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions. The Mannich base L-methoxy-2-hydroxy-3-(dibutylaminomethyl) benzene turned to the most effective among the substances tested.