Basic Statistics Course for Postgraduate Students Organized by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Congratulations from the Faculty of Medicine to Professor Dr. Saad Zaki Mahmoud
تهنئة اسرة كلية الطب
الدكتور/ ياسر فاروق عبدالرحيم لتعيينه مديراً لمستشفى الاطفال الجامعى
Congratulations to the Faculty of Medicine family
Professor Dr. / Mona Abdel Hamid El-Baz
On the occasion of her appointment as Head of the Department of Medical Biochemistry
Congratulations to the Faculty of Medicine family
Professor Dr. / Mona Abdel Hamid El-Baz
On the occasion of her appointment as Head of the Department of Medical Biochemistry
Congratulations to the Faculty of Medicine family
Prof. Dr. Hatem Galal Zaki for assuming the position of President-Elect of the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery SICOT
Invitation to discuss the doctoral thesis of Dr. Hadeer Mustafa Hassouna - Assistant Lecturer, Department of Clinical Pathology - Faculty of Medicine - Assiut University
Simvastatin (SV) is a poorly soluble drug; its oral administration is associated with a significant problem: Myopathy. The present study aims to formulate SV microsponges that have the potential to minimize the myotoxicity accompanying the oral administration of the drug. SV microsponges were prepared by exploiting the emulsion solvent evaporation technique. The % entrapment efficiency (%EE) of the drug approached 82.54 ± 1.27%, the mean particle size of SV microsponges ranged from 53.80 ± 6.35 to 86.03 ± 4.79 µm in diameter, and the % cumulative drug release (%CDR) of SV from microsponges was significantly higher than that from free drug dispersion much more, the specific surface area of the optimized microsponges formulation was found to be 16.6 m2/g revealed the porosity of prepared microsponges. Histological and glycogen histochemical studies in the skeletal muscles of male albino rats revealed that microsponges were safer than free SV in minimizing myotoxicity. These findings were proven by Gene expression of Mitochondrial fusion and fission (Mfn1) & (Fis1) and (Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma co-activator 1α) PGC-1α. Finally, our study ascertained that SV microsponges significantly decreased the myotoxicity of SV.