In vitro release of amoxycillin from lipophilic suppositories
- Authors: Webster, Jessica A , Dowse, Roslind , Walker, Roderick B
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184377 , vital:44213 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.3109/03639049809085636"
- Description: The in vitro release characteristics of amoxycillin from different lipophilic suppository bases were investigated using the USP rotating basket method. Suppositories containing 250 mg amoxycillin were prepared in theobroma oil and in the semisynthetic bases Witepsol W35, Suppocire A32, Novata BD, and Novata 299. Both freshly prepared and 1-month-old suppositories were tested. Analysis of amoxycillin was performed using a validated high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) technique. Release profiles differed significantly between bases, with the greatest amount of amoxycillin being released from both newly made and 1-month-old Novata BD bases (87.57 ± 8.18 and 99.66 ± 6.63%, respectively), and the lowest amount released from the newly manufactured theobroma suppositories (8.82 ± 0.75%) and the 1-month-old Suppocire A32 suppositories (7.78 ± 0.27%).
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First-row transition metal phthalocyanines as catalysts for water electrolysis
- Authors: Chebotareva, Natalia , Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293391 , vital:57081 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0013-4686(97)00033-9"
- Description: Modification of carbon electrodes with first row transition metal phthalocyanines results in the lowering of the potentials needed for water electrolysis in basic media, by 600 to 700 mV when compared to unmodified carbon electrodes. Nickel(II), cobalt(II) and iron(II) phthalocyanines show higher catalytic activity than zinc(II), manganese(II), copper(II) and metal free phthalocyanines.
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Management education and training
- Authors: Amos, Trevor L , Quinn, Lynn
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/270902 , vital:54490 , xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10113487_559"
- Description: The paper outlines the role of language in leaming and cognitive development and argues that management education and training needs to be integrated with language development to enable students to cope with the demands made of them at university as well as with those of careers in the business world. An integrated language developmEint project developed by the Depanment of Management and academic language practitioners at Rhodes Uhlvetsity is descriptionbed and suggestions are outlined as to how university Management departments can integrate language development in their mainstream teaching.
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The study of the interactions of cobalt (II) tetrasulfophthalocyanine with cysteine and histidine
- Authors: Sekota, Mantoa , Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293458 , vital:57087 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5387(97)00096-X"
- Description: Kinetics for the interaction of cobalt(II) tetrasulfophthalocyanine ([CoIITSPc]4−, Pc(−2) = phthalocyanine dianion) with the amino acids, histidine and cysteine, in pH 7.2 phosphate buffer were studied. The rates were found to be first order in both the [CoIITSPc]4− and the amino acid. The formation of the [CoIIITSPc]3− species in the presence of histidine occurred with a rate constant of 0.16 dm3 mol−s−1, whereas the formation of the [CoITSPc]5− species in the presence of cysteine gave a rate constant of 2.2 dm3 mol−1.
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Towards sustainable conversation: Developing environmental education processes
- Authors: Le Roux, Kim
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/389884 , vital:68492 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137446"
- Description: This paper highlights the importance of seeing environmental education as a process and considers the value of conversation and storytelling in environmental education processes. These processes are explored from a post-structural perspective within the context of the writer's own involvement in supporting environmental education processes.
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Voltammetric behavior of cysteine and metallothionein on cobalt (II) tetrasulfonated phthalocyanine modified glassy carbon electrodes
- Authors: Limson, Janice L , Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293346 , vital:57077 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.1140090314"
- Description: Cysteine, and rat Cd, Zn-metallothionein (Cd, Zn-MT) have been studied electrochemically at glassy carbon electrodes modified with cobalt(II) tetrasulfonated phthalocyanine, [CoIITSPc]4−, where Pc(2-) = phthalocyanine dianion. The electrode was modified by electrodeposition of [CoIITSPc]4−. The anodic currents for the oxidation of cysteine on these electrodes are observed at 0.82 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) in acidic media. The anodic currents for the oxidation of Cd, Zn-MT are observed at 0.90 V at pH 8.4 (Tris buffer).
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Electrocatalytic oxidation of cysteine by molybdenum (V) phthalocyanine complexes
- Authors: Mafatle, Tsukutlane J , Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293369 , vital:57079 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0728(95)04519-8"
- Description: Chemically modified electrodes, constructed by incorporating oxomolybdenum(V) phthalocyanine (OMo(V)(OH)Pc, Pc = phthalocyanine dianion) into graphite powder were used to catalyse the oxidation of cysteine. Solution catalysis of cysteine by oxomolybdenum(V) tetrasulfophthalocyanine, [OMo(V)(OH)TSPc]4−, was also investigated. A considerable reduction in overpotential for cysteine oxidation was observed. Cysteine oxidation occurred at 0.26 and 0.28 V vs. Ag/vbAgCl for catalysis by Omo(V)(OH)Pc and [OMo(V)(OH)TSPc]4− respectively as opposed to 0.77 V vs. Ag/vbAgCl observed on CoPc chemically modified electrodes. The anodic peak currents vary linearly with cysteine concentration in the range 0.02 to 0.08 mol dm−3 and 0.008 to 0.02 mol dm−3 for [OMo(V)(OH)TSPc]4− and OMo(V)Pc respectively.
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Pharmacokinetics of cyclizine following intravenous administration to human volunteers
- Authors: Kanfer, Isadore , Walker, Roderick B
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184389 , vital:44214 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0928-0987(96)00177-7"
- Description: The pharmacokinetics of cyclizine, a piperazine derivative useful in the prevention and treatment of nausea and vomiting, was investigated in six healthy male volunteers following an intravenous bolus dose. The drug is extensively distributed with a mean volume of distribution of 16.50 ± 3.33 l/kg and a mean total clearance of 0.870 ± 0.105 l/h per kg. Urinary excretion data showed that less than one percent of the dose was excreted up to 36 h as unchanged drug in the urine. The extremely low mean renal clearance (0.005 ± 0.002 l/h per kg) for the parent drug comprised only a small proportion of total clearance indicating that urinary excretion of parent drug is not a major route of elimination for cyclizine. The drug appears to exhibit biexponential pharmacokinetics and has a terminal elimination half-life of approximately 13 h.
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Spectroelectrochemical studies of tin (IV) diphthalocyanine
- Authors: Nensala, Ngudiankama , Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293436 , vital:57085 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5387(95)00325-1"
- Description: Cyclic voltammetry of tin(IV) diphthalocyanine (Pc2Sn) in dichloromethane containing TEAP shows two reduction couples at −0.56 and −0.89 versus saturated calomel electrode (SCE) and one oxidation couple at 0.35 V versus SCE; all were quasireversible one-electron couples. The oxidation couple corresponds to [Pc(−1)SnIVPc(−2)+/Pc(−2)SnIVPc(−2) and the reduction couples to Pc(−2)SnIVPc(−2)/[Pc(−3)SnIVPc(−2)]− and [Pc(−3)SnIVPc(−2)]−/[Pc(−3)SnIVPc(−3)]2−, respectively. The electronic absorption spectra of the various reduced or oxidized tin(IV) diphthalocyanine species are reported.
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The reaction of cyanide with iron (II) hexadecachlorophthalocyanine
- Authors: Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293447 , vital:57086 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5387(94)00291-L"
- Description: Kinetics and equilibria for the reaction between cyanide and iron(II) hexadecachlorophthalocyanine ((Cl)16PcFe(DMSO)2, where Pc(−2) = phthalocyanine dianion) in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) are reported. Only the spectrophotometric changes due to the formation of the dicyano, [(Cl)16PcFe(CN)2]2−, complex were observed. This complex is formed with the equilibrium constant, K3 = 1.6 × 103 dm3 mol−1 and a rate constant of k3f = 4.2 × 10−3 dm3 mol−1 s−1. The K2[(Cl)16PcFe(CN)2] complex dissolves in DMSO and dimethyl formamide (DMF) with ϵ = 110 000 and 92 000 dm3 mol−1 cm−1, respectively.
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Cyclic voltammetry and photooxidation of molybdenum (V) phthalocyanine
- Authors: Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/295475 , vital:57344 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5387(00)86594-8"
- Description: Cyclic voltammetry of OMoV(OH)Pc in chloronaphthalene shows two quasi-reversible oxidation couples at 0.38 and 1.22 V and three quasi-reversible reduction couples at −0.74, −1.15 and −1.85 V vs S.C.E. Bulk electrolysis of OMoV(OH)Pc (Pc2 = phthalocyanine dianion) shows that the first oxidation couple is due to the oxidation of the central MoV metal to MoVI and the first reduction couple due to reduction to OMoIVPc. Cyclic voltammetry and spectroelectrochemistry in DMSO also showed redox activity at the metal. Further reductions or oxidations in OMoVPc complexes occur at the phthalocyanine ring. OMoV(OH)Pc is readily photooxidized at the metal in the presence dichloromethane or dichlorobenzene, with the formation of OMoVIPc species.
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Redox reactions of an Mo (V) tetrasulfophthalocyanine
- Authors: Ferraudi, Guillermo , Nyokong, Tebello , Feliz, Mario , Perkovic, Marc , Rillema, D Paul
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/295530 , vital:57351 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1693(93)03664-V"
- Description: The preparation of an Mo(V) tetrasulfophthalocyanine and some of its thermal and photochemical reactions have been investigated in this work. Electrochemical processes have been followed by means of the UVVis spectral changes and compared with those observed in flash photolysis. Mo(IV) and Mo(V)-ligand-radical species are common intermediates of the electrochemical and photochemical reactions. In 254 nm irradiations of the Mo(V) tetrasulfophthalocyanine in aqueous solutions of 2-propanol, the macrocycle can be photohydrogenated and the product of the photolysis can be reoxidized with O2 back to the parent complex.
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