UNAM scientist designs, with macromolecules, method to improve drug efficiency

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With this scientific advance, it could even reduce the dose of drugs, said researcher Patricia Guadarrama of UNAM.

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Together with their scientific team, they carry out in vitro tests in Mexico City laboratory.- By using macromolecules called dendrimers, Patricia Guadarrama Acosta, researcher at the Institute of Materials Research (IIM) of UNAM, encapsulates and carries within them various drugs to improve their efficiency, even reduce the dose. “With this methodology -with branched structure that is repeated within a spherical and fractal architecture- they c…

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Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) found in samples of fentanyl collected in Tijuana and Mexicali a new component known as xylazine, a muscle relaxant veterinary anesthetic, not suitable for humans and sold only on prescription.The coordinator of the Opioids working group of the Seminar of Globality Studies, of the Faculty of Medicine of UNAM, Clara Fleiz Benitez, said during the Seminar 420 “Consumption of synt…