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| Author(s): |
Flávio Roberto Pinsetta
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2010-04-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Ivone Carvalho;
Flavio da Silva Emery
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| Advisor: | Ivone Carvalho |
| Abstract | |
Aminoglycosides are antibiotics used for the treatment of many serious bacterial infections. Most are produced by microorganisms (genera Streptomyces and Actinomyces), but products obtained by semi-synthesis resulted in the discovery of remarkable aminoglycosides. Despite their selective mechanism of action, the aminoglycosides are highly toxic. The nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity are more frequently observed. It is known that Ménière\'s disease can be treated by selective destruction of the vestibular cells, preserving the cells cochlear (inner ear tissues). Aminoglycoside antibiotics are used for this purpose but may cause cochlear damage (deafness). The study of structure-toxicity of residues fragmentation of aminoglycoside antibiotics may lead to simplified products, with selective vestibular activity, dissociated from the cochlear activity, safer for the treatment of Ménière\'s disease. In previous work, the experiments involving 2-deoxy-streptamine and streptidine demonstrated that they are not toxic to the cochlear tissue, when compared with the original compound. Neamina, another fragment of neomycin, was more toxic to the vestibular tissue than neomycin, but also presented great cochlear toxicity. The replacement of the diamino-glycoside unit of neamina containing the 2-deoxy-streptamine by other glycosidic units (glucose, galactose, glucosamine) is an attempt to eliminate the cochlear toxicity and maintain the original vestibular toxicity (100%). The same idea can also be applied to the streptidine residue. Thus, two pseudo-disaccharides, 2-deoxy-streptamine linked to galactose (48) and 2-deoxy-streptamine linked to glucose (49), both linked to the position on the glycoside anomeric carbon. Only the pseudo-disaccharide 2-deoxy-streptamine linked to galactose (48) was obtained in sufficient quantity to perform the ototoxic assay, which presented selective vestibular activity as desired in the treatment of Ménière\'s disease. Antimicrobial activity assays were performed with both pseudo-disaccharides synthesized 2-deoxy-streptamine linked to galactose (48) and 2-deoxy- streptamine linked to glucose (49), but did not show a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) significant against the strains tested. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 07/06156-1 - Synthesis and structure-toxicity relationship of aminoglycosides derivatives as a lead in the search for a selective drug for the treatment of Méniere disease. |
| Grantee: | Flávio Roberto Pinsetta |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |