著者

Fumika Ichino Hidemasa Bono Takeru Nakazato Atsushi Toyoda Asao Fujiyama Kikuo Iwabuchi Ryoichi Sato Hiroko Tabunoki

出版者

International Research and Cooperation Association for Bio & Socio-Sciences Advancement

雑誌

Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics (ISSN:18817831)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.1, pp.7-15, 2018-02-28 (Released:2018-03-19)

参考文献数

28

被引用文献数

5

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Human intestinal absorption is estimated using a human colon carcinoma cell line (Caco-2) cells from human colorectal adenocarcinoma, intestinal perfusion, or a mammalian model. These current evaluation systems are limited in their ability to estimate human intestinal absorption. In addition, in vivo evaluation systems using laboratory animals such as mice and rats entail animal ethics problems, and it is difficult to screen compounds on a large scale at the drug discovery stage. Thus, we propose the use of Bombyx mori larvae for evaluation of intestinal absorption of compounds as an alternative system in this study. First, to compare the characteristics among Caco-2 cells, human intestine, and B. mori larval midgut, we analyzed their RNA-seq data, and we found 26 drug transporters common to humans and B. mori. Next, we quantitatively developed an oral administration technique in B. mori and established a method using silkworm B. mori larvae that can easily estimate the intestinal permeability of compounds. Consequently, we could determine the dose and technique for oral administration in B. mori larvae. We also developed a B. mori model to evaluate the intestinal permeability of orally administered. Our constructed evaluation system will be useful for evaluating intestinal permeability in medical drug development.

著者

Yasuhiro NAMURA Yasuki UCHIDA Ryoichi SATO Noriyoshi SHIMIZU Mitsuru MOTOYOSHI Yusuke TSUTSUMI Takao HANAWA Takayuki YONEYAMA

出版者

The Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices

雑誌

Dental Materials Journal (ISSN:02874547)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.2019-023, (Released:2019-12-19)

参考文献数

21

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Chemical transitions after atmospheric pressure plasma irradiation were investigated by evaluating intermolecular attractions and atomic and molecular reactions. Gold, titanium and stainless-steel alloy samples were ground with #800 grit SiC waterproof paper and nitrogen gas atmospheric plasma irradiation was conducted. The surface free energies of the treated alloys were calculated and compared statistically. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis was performed.The surface free energies of all metal surfaces treated by plasma irradiation were 1.5-times higher than those of the untreated metals. The energy of the hydrogen bonding component increased, and all alloy surfaces were coated with metal oxide after only a short period of plasma irradiation. The surfaces oxidized by plasma exhibited a high active energy, mainly due to an increase in the hydrogen bonding component. Reactions with oxygen in the air were promoted on the clean surfaces with exposed reactive elements.