Instituto Superior Técnico

About: Instituto Superior Técnico is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Finite element method. The organization has 10085 authors who have published 30226 publications receiving 667524 citations. The organization is also known as: IST & Instituto Superior Tecnico.

Quantitative prediction of human pharmacokinetic responses to drugs via fluidically coupled vascularized organ chips.

Abstract: Analyses of drug pharmacokinetics (PKs) and pharmacodynamics (PDs) performed in animals are often not predictive of drug PKs and PDs in humans, and in vitro PK and PD modelling does not provide quantitative PK parameters. Here, we show that physiological PK modelling of first-pass drug absorption, metabolism and excretion in humans-using computationally scaled data from multiple fluidically linked two-channel organ chips-predicts PK parameters for orally administered nicotine (using gut, liver and kidney chips) and for intravenously injected cisplatin (using coupled bone marrow, liver and kidney chips). The chips are linked through sequential robotic liquid transfers of a common blood substitute by their endothelium-lined channels (as reported by Novak et al. in an associated Article) and share an arteriovenous fluid-mixing reservoir. We also show that predictions of cisplatin PDs match previously reported patient data. The quantitative in-vitro-to-in-vivo translation of PK and PD parameters and the prediction of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity through fluidically coupled organ chips may improve the design of drug-administration regimens for phase-I clinical trials.

Critical evaluation of stability constants of metal complexes of complexones for biomedical and environmental applications* (IUPAC Technical Report)

Abstract: Available experimental data on stability constants of proton (hydron) and metal complexes for seven complexones of particular biomedical and environmental interest: iminodiacetic acid (2,2'-azanediyldiacetic acid, IDA); (methyl-imino)diacetic acid (2,2'-(methylazanediyl)diacetic acid, MIDA); 2,2',2",2'''-{[(carboxymethyl)azanediyl]bis[(ethane-l,2-diyl)nitrilo]}tetraacetic acid (DTPA); 3.6,9,12-tetrakis(carboxymethyl )-3,6,9,12-tetraazatetradecanedioic acid (TTHA); 2,2',2"-(l,4,7-triazanonane-l,4,7-triyl)triacetic acid (NOTA); 2,2',2",2'''-(1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetrayl)tetraacetic acid (DOTA); 2,2',2",2'''-(1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane-1,4,8,11-tetrayl)tetraacetic acid (TETA), published in 1945-2000, have been critically evaluated. Some typical errors in stability constant measurements for particular complexones are summarized. Higher quality data are selected and presented as "Recommended" or "Provisional".

Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

Abstract: The Brazilian Amazon is globally important for biodiversity, climate, and geochemical cycles, but is also among the least developed regions in Brazil. Economic development is often pursued through forest conversion for cattle ranching and agriculture, mediated by logging. However, on the basis of an assessment of 286 municipalities in different stages of deforestation, we found a boom-and-bust pattern in levels of human development across the deforestation frontier. Relative standards of living, literacy, and life expectancy increase as deforestation begins but then decline as the frontier evolves, so that pre- and postfrontier levels of human development are similarly low. New financial incentives and policies are creating opportunities for a more sustained development trajectory that is not based on the depletion of nature and ecosystem services.