ABSTRACT
AIM: The quest to identify an accurate method of age estimation, had lead to the evaluation of aspartic acid racemisation in hard tissues of the human remains using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Our study is aimed at the applicability of the racemisation technique to use dentin as the sample to estimate the age in South Indian sub-population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-six non-carious teeth from living individuals distributed among 6 age groups (6 each), sexes (18 each) and jaws (18 each) were analysed for dextro (d) and levo (l) forms of aspartic acid using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique and their racemisation ratio were calculated for each tooth sample. RESULTS: High correlation was obtained between the aspartic acid racemisation rates in dentin and age of the individual with an error limited to ±3 years. Racemisation rates in teeth did not significantly differ between the sexes or jaws. CONCLUSION: The d-aspartic acid accumulation in dentin is synchronous with the aging of an individual and can be used as an accurate method of age estimation in our population.
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Age Determination by Teeth/methods , Aspartic Acid/analysis , Dentin/chemistry , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Female , Forensic Dentistry/methods , Humans , India , Linear Models , Male , Middle Aged , Young AdultABSTRACT
Spectral characteristics of flutamide drug have been studied in various solvents and beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD). The inclusion complex of flutamide with beta-CD is analysed by UV-visible, fluorimetry, FT-IR, 1H NMR, SEM, DSC and AM1 methods. In all solvents, flutamide exhibits a dual fluorescence. The longer wavelength emission (A band approximately 380 nm) is due to intramolecular charge transfer state (ICT) and the shorter wavelength emission (B band approximately 285 nm) originates from a locally excited state. In beta-CD, the increase in the fluorescence intensity of 'A' band indicates ICT emission enhanced in the beta-CD medium. beta-CD studies shows isopropyl group is present in the interior part of the beta-CD cavity whereas amino and CF(3) groups are present in the outside of the beta-CD cavity. A mechanism is proposed to explain the 1:1 inclusion process.
