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

BMC Pharmacol Toxicol. 2018 Nov 9;19(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s40360-018-0259-5.

Abstract

Purpose: High 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.

Results: We 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.

Conclusions: In 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.

Keywords: Cardiac; Drug delivery; Fractal; Hydrochlorothiazide; Hypertension; MATLAB.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antihypertensive Agents* / therapeutic use
  • Fractals*
  • Hydrochlorothiazide* / therapeutic use
  • Hypertension / drug therapy
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Nanoparticles* / therapeutic use
  • Nanoparticles* / ultrastructure
  • Software

Substances

  • Antihypertensive Agents
  • Hydrochlorothiazide