Judul: Perilaku difusi ketoprofen melalui membran kitosan-alginat
Abstrak: Gel kitosan-alginat berpotensi sebagai membran untuk digunakan dalam sistem pengantman obat. Dalam penelitian ini, membran kitosan-alginat yang dibuat dengan mencampurkan 30 ml larutan kitosan 2.25% (blv), 5 ml algiuat 0.83% (blv), dan 1 ml glutaraldehida 4% (vfv) digunakan untuk menguji perilaku difusi ketoprofen pada suhu 37 C dan 42 C.
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Judul: Perilaku Difusi Ketoprofen Melalui Membran Gel Kitosan-CMC
Abstrak: Chitosan-carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) gel is potential as a coating agent for ketoprofen sustained-drug-release. In the previous research, this gel has been reported to have good rheological properties as a drug delivery system, and persistent to gastric pH condition. This membrane was made by mixing 3% (w/v) chitosan, 1% (w/v) CMC, and 6% (v/v) glutaraldehyde in 30:5:1 ratio, and then poured into a mold. The membrane thickness (h) was varied by varying the volume used. Afterwards, the membrane was used for diffusion test at 37 and 42 °C temperatures (T). Three concentrations of ketoprofen in donor cell (A) were used: 25, 50, and 75 μg/ml, whereas the recipient cell was filled with ethanol-water (1:1) solvent. Aliquot was taken from recipient cell every 30 minutes until the equilibrium concentration (Cs) was reached. The absorbance of each aliquot was measured at wavelength of 258 nm. The Cs range obtained, namely 3.1-17,3 mg/l, had approached the ketoprofen therapy concentration (15 mg/l), so this membrane has better properties as a coating agent as compared with chitosan-alginate membrane previously reported. Further analysis using response surface method showed positive effects of A, h, and T towards flux (J) of ketoprofen through the membrane. The models obtained were Cs = 19.9277 – 0.01h – 0.3542A – 0.4069T + 0.0001h2 + 0.0013A2 + 0.0002hA – 0.0002hT + 0.00088 AT with R2 = 90.8%, and J = 6.42999 + 0.04251h +0.02198A – 0.1839T – 1.012Cs – 0.00009h2 + 0.00113A2 + 0.06862Cs 2 + 0.00078hA – 0.00040hT – 0.00040hCs + 0.00079AT – 0.01882ACs + 0.02169TCs with R2 = 98.9%. However, further morphological analysis is needed for the membrane having higher flux value.
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Judul: Estimation of Additive and Non-Additive Genetic Variances of Body Weight, Egg Weight and Egg Production for Quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) with an Animal Model Analysis
Abstrak: This study estimates the additive and non-additive variances for egg production and body weight traits of two lines of quails from a long-term selection with the help of the REML method. For the body weight of 42-day-old females (BW42f) and males (BW42m), a total of 7,934 records for line 1 and 7,214 records for line 2 from 21 generations were used in our analyses. Additionally, 1,717 records of females from line 1 and 1,671 records of females from line 2 contained information on their egg production at an age of 42 to 200 days (EN200), on the average egg weight for the first 11 weeks of their laying season (EW1), on the average egg weight from weeks 12 to 23 (EW2), and on their body weight at an age of 200 days (BW200f). A multivariate additive animal model and one-trait dominance models, which include the inbreeding coefficients as covariates, were fitted to the data. The estimates of the heritability gained from our dominance models were smaller than those from the additive model. For line 1, the heritability values decreased for EN200 from 0.35 to 0.32, for EW1 from 0.66 to 0.56, for BW200f from 0.42 to 0.38, and for BW200m from 0.51 to 0.49, respectively. For the first line, the respective ratio (d2) of the dominance variance to the phenotypic variance for EN200, EW1, BW200f and BW200m was 0.08, 0.22, 0.09 and 0.21, and the values for the second line were 0.12, 0.06, 0.001 and 0.23.
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