Pharmaceutical technology polymer molecules

The advent of combinatorial techniques and solid phase organic synthesis may lead to preparation of large numbers of structurally related molecules in short periods of time. This is important especially for the optimization of lead structures in the pharmaceutical industry [40]. It is now well established and documented that the combinatorial technology and solid phase techniques could offer sufficient latitude for preparation of corresponding chemical libraries with broad structural diversity. The diverse potentiality of (3-lactam moiety as specific pharmacophores and scaffolds has attracted ample interests from pharmaceutical industries for the synthetic methods based on polymer-supported techniques. 

Food materials, biological, and pharmaceutical scientists have recognized that water plays an important role in the structure, functionality and stability of biomaterials. The ubiquitous water molecules are small and simple, but they develop complex interactions and present unusual properties for unprepared observers. We thus aimed to overlap areas of different fields of research having in common problems faced by how and why water behaves as it does. The theme chosen for the ISOPOW 9 meeting was "Water properties related to the technology and stability of food, pharmaceutical, and biological materials." The understanding of the properties of water in foods, eiuiched by approaches from polymer and materials sciences and by the advances of analytical techniques, enabled us to detect unsolved questions and the need to go deeply into them. 

Although a majority of traditional medicinal agents are relatively small organic molecules, rDNA and hybridoma technologies have made it possible to produce large quantities of highly pure, therapeutically useful proteins. The rDNA-derived proteins and MAbs are not dissimilar to the other protein pharmaceuticals or biopharmaceuticals that pharmacists have dispensed in the past. As polymers of amino acids joined by peptide bonds, the properties of... 

It is well known that a polymer is a big molecule or macromolecule formed from hundreds or thousands of molecules called monomers. The number of bonds that a monomer can form is called its functionality. In this chapter we focus on the properties, technology and applications of sensors doped or embedded in tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) as a polymer, molecular imprinted polymer and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) for detecting pharmaceutical drugs. 

The primary use of cellulose film has been for wrapping purposes. The past years have witnessed a renewed interest in cellulose research and application sparked mostly by technological interests in renewable raw materials and more environmentally-friendly and sustainable recourses. It has been estimated that the yearly biomass production of cellulose is 1.5 tons, making it an inexhaustible source of raw material for environmentally-friendly and biocompatible products [3]. Cellulose derivatives are used for coatings, laminates, optical films, pharmaceuticals, food, and textiles. Numerous new applications of cellulose take advantage of its biocompatibility and chirality for the immobilization of proteins and antibodies and for the separation of enantiometric molecules, as well as the formation of cellulose composite with synthetic polymers and biopolymers. This chapter basically discussed on the medical applications of cellulose. 

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