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ArticleBMC pharmacology & toxicology2018

Fractal properties and morphological investigation of Nano hydrochlorothiazide is used to treat hypertension.

Amir Kazemi Korayem, Shahriar Ghamami, Zahra Bahrami

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Article in BMC pharmacology & toxicology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amir Kazemi KorayemDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, 34148-96818, Iran.
Shahriar GhamamiDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, 34148-96818, Iran. shghammamy@yahoo.com.
Zahra BahramiDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, 34148-96818, Iran.
Imam Khomeini International University · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeHigh blood pressure (hypertension) is a relatively common condition that increases blood pressure in the arteries abnormally, causing problems such as heart disease and stroke. Blood pressure is a force that is felt through the walls of the blood vessels and has a direct relationship to the power of pumping the heart and vascular resistance to the blood flow. One of the lowing of blood pressure medications is hydrochlorothiazide (Hctz) which is used to treat high blood pressure and swelling from heart failure, liver damage, and other minor actions. PROCEDURES: This study explains the effectiveness of Hctz with the help of "fractal dimension". To perfect investigate the fractal dimension, we used the Hctz drug nanoparticle form then using MATLAB software, homogeneity levels or heterogeneity of Nano Hctz using SEM images were computed.

resultsWe calculated histogram plot with SEM image by MATLAB software which that its standard deviation was eclose to zero and it can explain that the scattering of data is low and their amount is in one suffering. Fractal dimensions obtained from Matlab and SPSS software for normal distribution, correlation, standard deviation, mean, cumulative frequency and variance analysis were analyzed.

conclusionsIn this research, the association between Hctz treatment effects with the point of view of the fractal dimension of the drug was demonstrated to prove the properties of the drug in the body. in the near future, drug fractal studies can improve the development of new drugs and treatments with minimal cost than clinical approaches by linking chemistry, mathematical sciences and pharmaceutical sciences.

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Antihypertensive AgentsFractalsHydrochlorothiazideNanoparticlesHypertensionMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningSoftwareAntihypertensive AgentsHydrochlorothiazideCardiacDrug deliveryFractalHydrochlorothiazideHypertensionMATLAB

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PMID30413182
PMCPMC6230244
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