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| Author(s): |
Fernando Lucas Primo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2006-05-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Claudio Tedesco;
Maria Vitoria Lopes Badra Bentley;
Antonio Eduardo da Hora Machado
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| Advisor: | Antonio Claudio Tedesco |
| Abstract | |
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is the therapeutics that comes to act in the treatment of several cancer types, with growing interest in the last decades. Acting in way a complemental the traditional therapies, PDT consists basically of the administration systemic or topical of a photosensitizer drug (FS) following for the exhibition of the lesion to the visible light resulting in the regression tumoral characterized by processes of cellular death, and, the photosensitizer drug and the luminous radiation separately don\'t induce any damage type to the lesion. The monochrome radiation used in most of the cases is of the type LASER being addressed on the lesion by a group of fiber optic. Most of the studies to the present moment they suggest a mechanism common of action for PDT. After the excitement of the PS for the states excited singlet and triplet, and for transfer of energy for the molecular oxygen (O2) it takes the death tumoral caused by species reactivate of oxygen defined like ROS (1O2, O2_ ,OH, H2O2) besides other forms radicalares (CH3, NO2, R-CO2, etc.) that attack specific centers inside of the cellular systems, unchaining the death of such woven by necrosis processes and/or cellular apoptosis. In this research work we evaluated the interaction of the photosensitizer drug Foscan® with biodegradable nanoemulsion (NE) as drug delivery system (DDS) in PDT-topical. In the first step of the work physiochemical studies were accomplished for evaluation of the thermodynamic stability and determination of some morphologic parameters. Consecutively, we determined the photophysical characterization of the drug in colloidal medium being used spectroscope techniques in the stationary state and in the time function. It was possible to determine important parameters that elucidated the photodynamic potential of the system (DDS), confirming its viability for application in PDT. The last step of the dissertation work consists of the determination of the profile of cutaneous interaction of the system starting from studies in vitro in animal model. Being used permeation protocols and cutaneous retention, they were certain the diffusion flux, the index of retention, skin up-take and the time-lag. Therefore, with these studies we ended that the system Foscan®/NE showed characteristics favorable and great potential for application in PDT-topical giving sequence to futures studies in vivo and in clinical phase. (AU) | |