Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have an important impact in the actual medicinal therapy, having indications in covering the range from rheumatic inflammations to cardio-vascular, genito-urinary and stomatological diseases. Flufenamic acid is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, from the class of fenamates. It exhibits poor aqueous solubility, accordingly the aim of this study was to en...

The evacuant solution (ES) is a drug that has been used to clean the colon. The most common described side effects when using this drug are abdominal symptoms; skin rash is rare. We report on two patients who presented urticaria and angioedem after the intake of an evacuant solution to make a rectoscopy. We performed allergy studies: skin prick tests with common inhalants, pure ES and the compo...

Sepsis is the most common morbidity in preterm infants, who often receive total parenteral nutrition (TPN). We hypothesized that gut barrier function is compromised in TPN-fed compared with enterally fed newborn piglets (ENT pigs). Colostrum-deprived newborn pigs were implanted with jugular venous and bladder catheters under general anesthesia. Pigs were either administered TPN (n = 15) or fed ...

Paracetamol (PCM) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), sparingly soluble and bitter in taste. It is widely used as an analgesic and antipyretic. Solid dispersion of drug with different polymers was attempted to improve solubility of paracetamol.The aim of this study was to prepare, characterize and compare solid dispersions of poorly water soluble non-steroidal anti-inflammatory d...

BACKGROUND The ideal preparation regimen for pediatric colonoscopy remains elusive, and available preparations continue to represent a challenge for children. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy, safety, tolerability, and acceptance of 4 methods of bowel cleansing before colonoscopy in children. METHODS This randomized, investigator-blinded, noninferiority trial enrolled all chi...

In this study, the primary paper-mill sludge characterized as containing 51% glucan was used to optimize enzymatic saccharification process for production of bioethanol using a Box–Behnken design (BBD). Polyethylene glycol 4000 (PEG-4000) surfactant-assisted dried (DPS) showed 12.8% improvement in efficiency. There statistically significant effect solid enzyme loading and time on DPS at 95% con...

Objective: The study aimed to solubilization of imidazole drugs of interest; ketoconazole (KT) and miconazole nitrate (MN), for enhancement of the water solubility, the dissolution properties and the antimycotic activity of these drugs. Method: Different solid dispersion methods were used to prepare various dispersion systems of KT and MN using polyethylene glycol 4000 (PEG 4000), polyethylene ...

Paracellular permeability and absorptive water flux across the intestine of the euryhaline killifish were investigated using in vitro gut sac preparations from seawater- and freshwater-acclimated animals. The permeability of polyethylene glycol (PEG), a well-established paracellular probe, was measured using trace amounts of radiolabelled oligomers of three different molecular sizes (PEG-400, P...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of different plasticizers on the ethylcellulose coatings of capsules and its timed release characteristics. Various plasticizers such as dibutyl phthalate (DBP), triacetin (TA), glycerol, triethyl citrate (TEC), polyethylene glycol-4000 and polyethylene glycol-6000 (PEG) were studied. The physicochemical properties of the casted poly...