Improved Solubility (improved + solubility)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Application of a Plasma Reactor to Modify Egg Ovalbumin for Improved Solubility

JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE, Issue 1 2001
G.H. Gao
ABSTRACT: A Plasma reactor was used to change the surface structure of ovalbumin and enhance solubility. The gases used to generate the plasmas were air, argon, nitrogen and oxygen. Ovalbumin was exposed to the gases for 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120 min. Unexposed ovalbumin served as the control. Samples were examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), spectrophotometry, fluorometry, differential scanning calorimetry, and circular dichroism. Solubility and hydrophobicity of ovalbumin increased with exposure time, whereas endothermic enthalpy, onset PAGE. No change in CD spectra resulted from the plasma treatment. The structural changes were regarded as conformational adaptability. [source]


Self-Assembled Nanostructures of Tailored Multi-Metal Complexes and Morphology Control by Counter-Anion Exchange

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 35 2010
Dr. Masaki Yamamura
Improved solubility: Trisaloph complexes bearing PEGylated adamantane units were designed (see figure) and synthesized to improve their solubility in aqueous media. The complexes afforded a self-assembled nanostructure in aqueous media. Spherical and fibril aggregates were successfully formed based on the structural change caused by the coordinated anions. [source]


Potential prospects of chitosan derivative trimethyl chitosan chloride (TMC) as a polymeric absorption enhancer: synthesis, characterization and applications

JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY: AN INTERNATI ONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE, Issue 9 2008
Jasjeet K. Sahni
ABSTRACT In recent years, researchers have been working extensively on various novel properties of polymers to develop increased efficiency of drug delivery and improve bioavailability of various drug molecules, especially macromolecules. Chitosan, a naturally occurring polysaccharide, because of its protonated/polymeric nature, provides effective and safe absorption of peptide and protein drugs. Its transmucosal absorption is, however, limited to acidic media because of its strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds. A new partially quaternized chitosan derivative, N-trimethyl chitosan chloride (TMC), has been synthesized with improved solubility, safety and effectiveness as an absorption enhancer at neutral pH and in aqueous environment. It enhances the absorption, especially of peptide drugs, by reversible opening of tight junctions in between epithelial cells, thereby facilitating the paracellular diffusion of peptide drugs. This derivative thus opens new perspectives as a biomaterial for various pharmaceutical applications/drug delivery systems. This review deals with the potential use of the quaternized chitosan derivative as a permeation enhancer for the mucosal delivery of macromolecular drugs along with its other biomedical applications. [source]


Polyesterification of aromatic dicarboxylic acids and bisphenols with tosyl chloride/dimethylformamide/pyridine promoted by the improvement of the difficult solubility of the activated diacids with lithium chloride

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 11 2004
Fukuji Higashi
Abstract The solution polyesterification of dicarboxylic acids in pyridine, the activated intermediates of which were difficult to dissolve in tosyl chloride/dimethylformamide/pyridine, was investigated in the presence of lithium chloride. The solubility of the activated dicarboxylic acids was largely improved by the presence of the salt, and the polycondensation with bisphenols was greatly facilitated. The salt was more effectively added to a pyridine solution of dicarboxylic acids than to the activated dicarboxylic acids in pyridine. The favorable additive effect on the improved solubility was attributed to a lowered degree of association of the activated dicarboxylic acids, which led to distributions of the resulting oligomers from bisphenols at an earlier stage closer to the theoretical ones and yielded better polycondensation results. The reaction, which proceeded through favorable distributions of the co-oligomers, produced copolymers of higher inherent viscosities and slightly block sequence distributions determined by NMR. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 42: 2725,2733, 2004 [source]