Tolperisone is a centrally acting muscle relaxant that has been used for the treatment of post-stroke spasticity and low back pain. Recently, the safety of tolperisone pharmaceutical products has been reassessed due to growing concerns over allergic adverse events. Reactive degradants of tolperisone may be responsible for these hypersensitivity reactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDetailed polyphenol profiling of European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) bark, leaf, male and female catkin extracts was performed by high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD-MS/MS). A total of 194 compounds were characterized and tentatively identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are complex carbohydrates that exist naturally in mother's milk. Due to their myriad beneficial biological effects, HMOs are in the focus of current researches. Some of these complex carbohydrates are already commercially available utilizing their health-promoting benefits not just in infant formulas but in dietary supplements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman breast milk is the gold standard for infant feeding and the best possible nourishment a new-born could have. Breastfeeding is the natural way to provide optimal nutritional, immunological and emotional nurturing for the healthy growth and development of infants. Human milk is a complex and dynamic biofluid comprised of many hundreds to thousands of distinct bioactive structures, among which one of the most abundant substances are the non-conjugated complex carbohydrates referred to as human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe poor water solubility of the free base and the high dissociation constant (K(a)) hinder mainly the assay of alkaloid salts. We have elaborated an environment friendly method that can be carried out in aqueous media. The stability difference of the cyclodextrin (CD) complexes of free and protonated bases were used for this purpose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHost-guest interactions in various protonation forms of the anticancer drug imatinib with beta-cyclodextrin (CD) and randomly methylated beta-CD (RAMEB) have been investigated using techniques of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H NMR), phase solubility, pH-potentiometry and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Phase-solubility analysis showed A(L)-type diagram with beta-CD, which suggested the formation of 1:1 inclusion complexes. The 1:1 stoichiometry was confirmed by potentiometry in aqueous solution and by ESI-MS in the gas phase.
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