Current Pharmaceutical Analysis - Volume 16, Issue 8, 2020

Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that affects more than twenty-one million people throughout the world. Schizophrenia also causes early death. Schizophrenia and other related psychotic ailments are controlled by the prescription of antipsychotic drugs, which act by blocking certain chemical receptors in the brain and thus relieves the symptoms of psychotic disorder. These drugs are present in the di Read More

Pharmaceutical analysis plays an indispensable role in various stages of drug pipeline including drug development, fabrication of formulation, stability studies and quality control. It is also used for characterizing the composition of different dosage forms in quantitative and qualitative ways. Comprehensive literature survey forms the foundation stone for the focused analysis of research activity. Irbesartan is a hypertension a Read More

Background: Duloxetine hydrochloride (DUL) is a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. It is used for treating depression and anxiety. It is available in the market as a capsule called Cymbatex®, which is used for the treatment of depression. 1-naphthol is a potential impurity of DUL. It is hepatotoxic to humans and has potential toxicity to freshwater fish. Objective: Duloxetine hydrochloride was determined in the presen Read More

Background: Atenolol is a selective beta 1 blocker that can be used alone or in combination with hydrochlorothiazide or with chlorthalidone for the treatment of hypertension and prevention from a heart attack. Objective: The main target of this work was to improve modern, easy, accurate and selective liquid chromatographic method (RP-HPLC) for the determination of these drugs in the presence of their degradation products. Read More

Background: Curcumin (CUR) and baicalein (BAI) are the main active ingredients in Curcuma longa and Scutellaria baicalensis, which are used together in Jiang-Qin-Si-Wu decoction to treat gynecological diseases. On the other hand, zebrafish, as a metabolic model has become more popular, therefore, the metabolism of CUR and BAI in zebrafish is investigated in the present study. Methods: Zebrafish embryos after h Read More

Background: Linezolid is a synthetic broad-spectrum antibacterial belonging to the class of oxazolidinones. Linezolid for intravenous infusion is isotonized with dextrose. In acidic environment, the dehydration of dextrose produces furan derivatives, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) being the main one. The determination of this degradation product is of fundamental importance, since there is evidence it is cytotoxic, genotoxic, Read More

Background: Tamoxifen (Soltamox) is an antineoplastic agent and an estrogen receptor antagonist used to treat breast cancer, but have severe side effects such as hot flashes, vaginal discharge, etc. Dose monitoring is a necessity for optimum treatment, to prevent severe adverse effects. Methods: In this study, the solvent bar microextraction method (SBME) was used for preconcentration and microextraction coupled with Read More

Introduction: Saxagliptin hydrochloride is an oral hypoglycemic agent used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Saxagliptin is unstable because it undergoes an intra-molecular cyclisation reaction to form a cyclicamidine in both solution and solid states. In pharmaceutical development of saxagliptin it is important to select the excipients which are compatible and help to minimize the formation of cyclicami Read More

Background: Simultaneous determination of medication components in pharmaceutical samples using ordinary methods have some difficulties and therefore these determinations usually were made by expensive methods and instruments. Chemometric methods are an effective way to analyze several components simultaneously. Objective: In this paper, a novel approach based on Bayesian regularized artificial neural network is Read More

Background: Commelina communis Linn (Commelinae Herba) is a traditional Chinese medicine that can be used both as food and as medicine. It has been used to treat a variety of disorders, including a cold, high fever, sore throat, edema and oliguria for many years. Two pairs of isomeric flavonoid glycosides are the main active components in Commelina communis Linn, and they have a high content. Objective: The objecti Read More

Background: A simple and sensitive ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method was developed and validated to measure the concentrations of gemigliptin (GEM) and teneligliptin (TEN) using pioglitazone (PIO) as an internal standard. Methods: Chromatographic separation of two gliptins was achieved on a C-18 (100 mm X 2.1 mm, 2.7 μm) column using a mobile phase consisting of formic acid in Read More

Background: Somatropin is recombinant human growth (GH) used for the treatment of growth failure in children and GH deficiency in adults. At present, rhGH marketed in China is mostly freeze-dried powder injection. As the lyophilization process is unstable, time-consuming and costly, rhGH has been prepared into an aqueous solution for administering directly. Introduction: In this study, the pharmacokinetics of two dosage fo Read More

Background: Because of the similar appearance of Gynura segetum and panax notoginseng, the patients often mistakenly use Gynura segetum as Panax notoginseng, which causes serious liver damage. There is no comparative study on the metabolism of Gynura segetum and Panax notoginseng in the literature. This study was conducted to compare the difference between Panax notoginseng and its counterfeit Gynur Read More

Background: Regadenoson is an A2A adenosine receptor agonist that is a coronary vasodilator and commonly used as a pharmacologic cardiac stressing agents. Methods: HPLC method was used for the analysis of related substances. The degraded impurities during the process were isolated and characterized by IR, Mass and NMR spectral analysis. Results: Forced degradation study of regadenoson under conditions of hydroly Read More

Background: Vorasidenib is a pan-IDH inhibitor, undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. Methods: In this paper, we present the data of method validation to quantify vorasidenib in the mice blood mice using dried blood spot (DBS) method on LC-MS/MS as per FDA bioanalytical method validation guideline. Using methanol (enriched with internal standard) as an extraction solvent followed by sonicati Read More

Objective: A rapid and environmental friendly microemulsion liquid chromatographic method was developed for simultaneous quantification of morphine (MOR), tramadol (TRA) and lornoxicam (LOR) in biological fluids. Methods: Microemulsion used in this study was an aqueous solution containing sodium dodecyl sulfate (0.12 M), n-propanol (10%), ethyl acetate (0.75%), tri-ethyl amine (0.3%), orthophosphoric acid (0.15 Read More