Cancers evolve in a dynamic ecosystem. Thus, characterizing cancer's ecological dynamics is crucial to understanding cancer evolution and can lead to discovering novel biomarkers to predict disease progression. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is an early-stage breast cancer characterized by abnormal epithelial cell growth confined within the milk ducts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, five earth-friendly spectrophotometric methods using multivariate techniques were developed to analyze levofloxacin, linezolid, and meropenem, which are utilized in critical care units as combination therapies. These techniques were used to determine the mentioned medications in laboratory-prepared mixtures, pharmaceutical products and spiked human plasma that had not been separated before handling. These methods were named classical least squares (CLS), principal component regression (PCR), partial least squares (PLS), genetic algorithm partial least squares (GA-PLS), and artificial neural network (ANN).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is crucial to have a reliable and sensitive method for separating common drugs used in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia treatment protocols for ongoing treatment and upcoming investigations. This study presents an HPLC-FLD approach to analyze three co-administered medicines - remdesivir (RDV), hydroxychloroquine sulphate (HCQ), and levofloxacin hemihydrate (LVX) - in their pure forms, pharmaceutical preparations, and spiked human plasma. The HPLC-FLD analysis was conducted using a Symmetry® C18 column (100 mm × 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study introduces a new method for analyzing rifampicin, moxifloxacin, and metronidazole using a green micellar High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Ultraviolet method in bulk drugs, different commercial formulations, and spiked human plasma. The combined therapy of these three broad-spectrum antibiotics is used to cure refractory hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), an inflammatory condition affecting the skin. The sustainable separation was attained on a reversed-phase C18 Kinetex® column maintained at ambient temperature in less than 5 min.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel, sensitive, and green micellar UPLC method was proposed and validated for the simultaneous determination of four hypoglycemic agents used in type II diabetes mellitus treatment namely, pioglitazone, alogliptin, glimepiride, and vildagliptin. The developed UPLC method was successfully applied for quantitative analysis of these drugs in bulk, in pharmaceutical formulations, and in spiked human plasma. Chromatographic separation was carried out on a Kinetex® 1.
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October 2023
Two sensitive microbiological and charge transfer spectrophotometric methods have been developed for the quantitative determination of the antifungal drug, tioconazole, in its pure form and pharmaceutical preparations. The microbiological assay was based on the agar disk diffusion method by measuring the diameter of the inhibition zones related to different concentrations of tioconazole. The spectrophotometric method relied on charge transfer complex formation between tioconazole as an n-donor and chloranilic acid as a π-acceptor at room temperature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Daclatasvir dihydrochloride has important roles not only in the management of COVID-19 pandemic symptoms but also in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection.
Objective: The current research presents four novel and simple platforms including silver-nanoparticles spectrophotometric technique and three electrochemical conductometric ones for daclatasvir analysis in its tablet, biological fluids, and dissolution media.
Methods: The spectrophotometric platform involved the synthesis of silvernanoparticles through a redox reaction between the reducing agent (daclatasvir) and the oxidizing agent (silver nitrate) in presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone as a stabilizing agent.
Miconazole nitrate (MIC) and nystatin (NYS) combination has proven its effectiveness as a prodigious therapy to cure women's common infections; vaginal candidiasis and vaginal mycosis. Herein, six smart UV-spectrophotometric platforms depending on minimal mathematical manipulation steps were first introduced for the simultaneous green analysis of MIC and NYS in their pure forms and commercial vaginal suppositories without any preliminary separation steps. These platforms included dual-wavelength, ratio difference, mean centering of ratio spectra, first derivative ratio, ratio subtraction, and absorption correction methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAspirin and omeprazole combining has proven their effectiveness clinically in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases in patient with gastric diseases and gastric ulcers. Simultaneous determination of omeprazole and aspirin in their combination is a challenge due to the overlapping spectra of these drugs. Six smart and different spectrophotometric methods were developed for the analysis of omeprazole and aspirin in binary mixture and pharmaceutical dosage form.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A recent combination of aspirin (ASP) and omeprazole (OMP) has been presented in a fixed dosage form for the treatment of many cardiovascular diseases, particularly in patients with gastric diseases. However, ASP is very sensitive to degradation into salicylic acid (SAL) as its main degradation product. Hence, it is very important to develop methods for the determination of ASP and OMP in the presence of SAL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlumethasone pivalate (FP) and clioquinol (CL) formulation was developed as a prodigious remedy to cure the external ear inflammatory disorders. So, the current research introduces five smart and novel UV-spectrophotometric platforms relying on minimal mathematical manipulation steps for simultaneous green analysis of FP and CL with no preliminary separation in their formulation that suffered from the high difference of their ratio and severe spectral overlapping. These platforms involved dual-wavelength, first derivative ratio, Fourier self-deconvolution, area under the curve, and bivariate methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSignaling pathways that drive bladder cancer (BC) progression may be promising and specific targets for systemic therapy. Here, we investigated the clinical significance and targetability of NOTCH and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling for this aggressive malignancy. We assessed NOTCH1 and MAPK activity in 222 stage III and IV BC specimens of patients that had undergone radical cystectomy, and tested for clinical associations including cancer-specific and overall survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new and simple spectrophotometric method was developed for the simultaneous determination of a new antidiabetic mixture of linagliptin and empagliflozin namely fourier self deconvulated method. The developed method based on minimal mathematical data processing on the zero order spectrum for solving sever overlapping spectra of the mentioned drugs in their pure forms and pharmaceutical dosage form. The zero order spectra of linagliptin and empagliflozin were deconvulated using Fourier transforms function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The chemokine receptor CXCR5 is selectively expressed on B cells; it is involved in lymphocyte homing and the development of normal lymphoid tissue. Its principle ligand is CXCL13 or B lymphocyte chemoattractant. Three polymorphisms in the CXCR5 gene, rs148351692 C/G, rs6421571 C/T, and rs78440425 G/A, have been identified.
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March 2021
Empagliflozin and linagliptin are newly approved FDA combination that used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) under trade name Glxambi. Two spectroflourimetric methods were developed for simple quantitative determination of empagliflozin and linagliptin in their pharmaceutical formulation and human plasma without need any tedious processing operations. Empagliflozin has a native fluorescence nature, therefore can be directly determined by measuring emission peak at 305 nm after excitation at 234 nm.
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August 2020
Counterfeit drugs have adverse effects on public health; chromatographic methods can be used but they are costly. In this study, we developed cost-effective and environmentally friendly methodology for the analysis of terazosin HCl (TZ) in the presence prazosin hydrochloride (PZ) using UV spectroscopy in conjunction with machine learning (ML) models. Variable selection algorithms were applied to select most informative spectral variables.
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April 2020
Five simple, sensitive, accurate and precise spectrophotometric methods were developed for the simultaneous determination of Nebivolol hydrochloride (NEB) and Valsartan (VAL) in their binary mixtures and in pharmaceutical dosage form. The methods included Ratio Difference, First Derivative ratio, Mean Centering of ratio spectra, Bivariate and H-Point Standard additions method. The calibration curves were linear over the concentration range of 10-70 μg/ml and 20-60 μg/ml for NEB and VAL, respectively for Ratio Difference and First Derivative ratio method and over the concentration range of 10-70 μg/ml and 10-60 μg/ml for NEB and VAL, respectively for Mean Centering of ratio spectra, Bivariate and H-Point Standard additions method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRBP7 is a member of the cellular retinol-binding protein (CRBP) family and previous data suggested a link between CRBPs and the malignant transformation of colon cancer cells. Here, we investigated the potential of RBP7 as a predictive biomarker for patients with colon cancer and determined its functional relevance for tumor progression. We analyzed RBP7 protein and mRNA expression in independent tissue collections of colon cancers with recorded follow-up data, including data from TCGA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Th17 cells are blamed for being accused in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia. Th17 cells are CD4+ cell subtype. They produce IL-17A and IL-17F.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Dysregulation of the extracellular matrix molecule biglycan (BGN) predicts poor survival in several cancer entities. Our study investigated the prognostic impact of BGN in bladder cancer (BC) in 2 independent cohorts and assessed its role in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and association with molecular BC subtypes.
Methods: BGN protein expression was correlated with the oncological outcome of 162 patients with BC undergoing radical cystectomy (RC) in a single center and furthermore on gene expression level in the TCGA database.
Patients with advanced colorectal cancer often are treated with systemic cytotoxic therapy using fluorouracil (5-FU), oxaliplatin, irinotecan, and FOLFOX or FOLFIRI combination protocols. Additionally, signaling pathways that are active in colorectal cancer can be therapeutically targeted. Herein, we examined whether chemotherapy impacts on WNT, MAPK and NOTCH signaling pathways in xenograft models of colon cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive clonal disease, is genetically heterozygous. The prognostic role of expression of Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP) gene, which behaves as a multidrug transporter, in adult AML is ambiguous.
Objective: The objective is to assess the level of mRNA expression of BCRP gene in newly diagnosed cytogenetically normal adult Egyptian AML patients; and to clarify its potential influence and association between therapeutic responsiveness and disease free survival.
Novel univariate and multivariate factor-based calibration-prediction techniques were validated for simultaneous ultraviolet spectrophotometric determination of ribavirin (RIV), daclatasvir (DAV), sofosbuvir (SOV), and sorafenib (SON) which are co-administered for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that results from Hepatitis C-virus (HCV) infection in their commercial products and in biological fluids. Determination of these compounds is essential owing to their pharmacotherapeutic benefits. Due to spectral overlapping of RIV, DAV, SOV, and SON, univariate extended derivative ratio (EDR) method and multivariate partial least-squares (PLS) and principal component regression (PCR) methods were used for constructing the calibration curves.
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September 2018
Charge-transfer complex (CTC) formation between tioconazole (TCZ) as an n-electron donor and 7, 7, 8, 8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) as a π-acceptor was studied spectrophotometrically with an accompanying kinetic and thermodynamic investigation. Multivariate data analysis via a set of experimental designs was executed for this purpose. A 2 - two-level full factorial design (FFD) was used for inspecting the proposed variables while a face-centered central composite design (FCCCD) was used to adjust the levels of variables proved to be significant.
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September 2018
In accordance with International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) guidelines, six novel, simple and precise sequential spectrophotometric methods were developed and validated for the simultaneous analysis of Ribavirin (RIB), Sofosbuvir (SOF), and Daclatasvir (DAC) in their mixture without prior separation steps. These drugs are described as co-administered for treatment of Hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV is the cause of hepatitis C and some cancers such as liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) and lymphomas in humans.
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