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Liposomal Encapsulation Can Serve To Make Medicines More Effective

mercredi 3 décembre 2014

By Ida Dorsey


Liposomes improved the effects of the medication you use. Liposomal encapsulation is a form of nutrients that are protected by a thin membrane. They are very similar substances that make up ones cell allowing the nutrients to pass through the membranes in one piece and ready to work. This form of technology is not like pills and powder that one tends to take which tend to get flushed from the body.

The founder Mr Brooks Bradley showed that by combining water, lecithin and vitamin c together and then adding this little mixture to an ultrasonic bath it can produce a medical product. A simple recipe on how to make liposomes involves lecithin getting dissolved in a solvent. This could be chloroform or acetone and then once it has evaporated it will leave a thin layer on the container.

When ultrasonic waves are produced the sound waves then break up the lipids causing the liposome to trap the watery drug. Working outside a laboratory helps to save money and also improve one's health. There is a book available that will help those budding scientists to create this new technology themselves.

The word liposome comes from two Greek words; the first is fat and the other body. They were first discovered while scientists were testing a new electron microscope and added a negative stain to dry phospholipids. This negative staining is a method used in diagnostic microscopy, for different small specimens with an optically opaque fluid.

All cancer cells tend to divide much quicker than the healthy cells and chemotherapy drugs are effective in targeting them. Even the fast growing healthy cells will be damaged in the process. With all the different cancer drugs out there just about every one of them has some bad side effects.

Nitrobenzene is an organic compound and is water insoluble yellow oil that has an odour similar to almonds. Once it is frozen they will become more of a greenish yellow crystal. When this compound is made on a bigger scale it changes from benzene to aniline. Occasionally when used in the laboratories they are used as a solvent.

Aniline or amino benzene is a toxic compound consisting of a phenyl group and is attached to the amino group. The main use for this is in the making of precursors to polyurethane. It is very volatile and ignites very quickly leaving a smell of rotten fish in its wake.

If liposomal encapsulation works so well for the transportation of nutrients one can only hope that it might also be successful for transporting life saving drugs to those afflicted with cancer and many other illnesses as well. The drugs will not affect the white blood cells which results in neutropenia. They are a crucial part in keeping the immune system healthy enough to fight off infections.




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