Current Pharmaceutical Analysis - Volume 20, Issue 4, 2024

Background: The screening of active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine is an important task in the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, and the commonly used analytical means in the past were mainly to screen the extracts of traditional Chinese medicine through pharmacological experiments, but the method has major defects. The target fishing strategy provides a new idea for the screening of a Read More

Alkaloids provide significant health benefits in moderation, but excessive levels can pose health hazards. They play an important role in the creation of numerous pharmacological medications, acting as potent antispasmodics, analgesics, and even anti-cancer medicines. A detailed review of sensitive and accurate alkaloid analytical techniques can be used as a guide for future analyses of alkaloids in pertinent research. The m Read More

Background and Objective: Rivaroxaban, a direct oral anticoagulant, has become the first-line therapy medicine to prevent and treat Venous Thromboembolism (VTE). Patients with femoropopliteal venous thrombosis may use rivaroxaban along with diosmin. Rivaroxaban is the substrate of CYP3A4 and P-glycoprotein (P-gp), but diosmin is the inhibitor. The combination might lead to Drug-drug Interaction (DDI). The aim of Read More

Background: Non-enzymatic detection has become a research hotspot because of its alternativity in solving problems compared to enzymatic biosensors, but most of those sensors require a strong basic pH environment (higher than 10) to active their surface, restricting their use in clinical detection because the pH of body fluid is around 7.4. Furthermore, metal oxide sensors with specific morphologies are reported to have Read More

Objective: The objective of this study is to develop and validate a routine screening test for the determination of three common antipyretic-analgesic synthetic drugs (paracetamol, ibuprofen, and aspirin) adulteration in herbal products using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) coupled with chemometric method. Methods: ATR-FTIR spectra of sixteen testing sets of herbal product s Read More