Avaliação de toxicidade da pseudoboemita para liberação controlada de fármacos

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Ana Maria Thiago de
• Orientador(a): Munhoz Junior, Antonio Hortêncio
• Banca de defesa: Miranda, Leila Figueiredo de , Silva, Leonardo Gondim de Andrade e
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Engenharia de Materiais
• Departamento: Engenharia de Materiais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: toxicidade oral aguda e subaguda; pseudoboemita; aciclovir
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: toxicity oral acute and subacute; pseudoboehmite; aciclovir
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA DE MATERIAIS E METALURGICA
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24163

The nanotechnology research progressed significantly over the past 30 years, allowing for the development of new materials with applications that meet the interests of various sectors. In health, the pharmaceutical industry has used nanostructured materials to develop the release of drugs. Application of the nanoparticles offers numerous advantages compared to conventional release, such as progressive and controlled release of drugs from the matrix degradation, effective plasma levels with less fluctuation over time, less risk of toxicity, biological penetration through the barriers and targeting to specific tissue targets. In this study, the material used in drug delivery is pseudoboehmite. This is an oxyhydroxide of aluminum and consists of a structure similar to boehmite. With its production by sol-gel process, starting from high purity reagents, it is possible to obtain high-purity pseudoboehmite with high specific area and with total absence of contaminants, making it therefore promising for applications in controlled release of drugs. In view of the possible use of pseudoboehmite as carriers for controlled drug delivery, this study aimed to determine its acute (50mg/kg, 300mg/kg and 2000mg/kg) and. subacute toxicity (1000mg/kg) in male rats (Wistar rats). The methodology consisted of toxicity tests from the evaluations and analyzes of the biochemical and histopathological parameters resulting from its administration. Finally, the pseudoboehmite was tested in vivo as possible releasing controlled drug acyclovir. In both tests, the administration has not determined mortality in groups and histopathological evaluation of the livers of the animals were not observed any changes in tissue integrity. These readings showed there to absorption of the acyclovir systemic circulation in animals receiving the pseudoboehmite. The readings were taken with a high performance liquid chromatography showed that there was absorption of acyclovir systemic circulation in animals receiving the pseudoboehmite with acyclovir. Acyclovir administered with pseudoboehmite was absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. The results showed that the pseudoboehmite has low toxicity at high doses of short and falls under the category of nontoxic; the absence of aluminum in the plasma samples emphasizes the absence of aluminum absorption into the systemic circulation and acyclovir present in the plasma of rats allowed confirm that this is present in the systemic circulation of animals even after the steps of the desorption of pseudoboehmite.