Entresto™ (LCZ696) has been approved globally for heart failure management. However, its lifelong use alongside over-the-counter (OTC) drugs like ibuprofen (IBU) and fexofenadine (FEX) necessitates an in-depth investigation of potential pharmacokinetic interactions, as they share the same metabolic and elimination pathways. This study aimed to develop a bioanalytical HPLC method with a fluorescence detector (FLD) to quantify LCZ696 analytes (valsartan, VAL; sacubitril, SAC; and sacubitril active metabolite, LBQ657) in rat plasma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHelicobacter pylori has a big sway when peptic ulcers are concerned. For its eradication, different protocols have been approved. Among which, the tripartite therapy protocol which embraces vonoprazan as potassium competitive acid blocker in combination with amoxicillin and metronidazole as antibiotics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe work introduces green and white sustainable micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) procedure that could analyze therapeutically related drugs, empagliflozin (EMP), linagliptin (LIN) and metformin (MET) which are antidiabetic drugs with different mechanism of action, in their different pharmaceutical combinations. The method not only comply with the green analytical concepts, but also it is in line with sustainable analytical concepts as it is economic by applying the same operating conditions to analyze different pharmaceuticals in quality control (QC) labs which is a crucial step in QC labs and research centers to save time, effort, and money. Moreover, the method functionality regarding its scope with its achieved levels of accuracy, precision, low detection, and quantitation limits is tested using white assessment tool and compared with reported methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastrointestinal tract disorders constitute a heavy burden to healthcare providers. To eradicate Helicobacter pylori infection, different triple therapy protocols have been proposed. Among which are combinations of proton pump inhibitors (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe use of complementary medicine (CMD) for liver support in Hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients sometimes coincides with the administration of oral antiviral drugs to eradicate the virus. This calls for a deep investigation of CMD effects on the pharmacokinetic parameters of these drugs to ensure their safety and efficacy. Silymarin (SLY), as a CMD, was selected to be given orally to healthy male rats with sofosbuvir (SFB) and ledipasvir (LED), a common regimen in HCV treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nutraceuticals (NTCs), as honey and tablets with herbal extract are subjected to adulteration.
Objective: For NTCs claimed to enhance sexual performance, synthetic drugs (sildenafil, tadalafil, avanafil, vardenafil, and dapoxetine) are common adulterants, so they were selected to be simultaneously analyzed in the current study. Natural aphrodisiacs (icariin and yohimbine) are claimed to be present in many fake NTCs, so they were also included in the study.
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
December 2021
A rapid, efficient, and sensitive liquid chromatographic assay hyphenated to fluorometric detector (HPLC-FLD) was developed and validated for the determination of doxorubicin (DXR) and prodigiosin (PDG) in rat plasma. The sample pre-treatment involves a protein precipitation with acetonitrile with satisfying extraction efficiency (98% and 85% for DXR and PDG, respectively). The chromatographic separation was accomplished using stationary phase: Agilent Zorbax Eclipse plus-C18 analytical column (250 × 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFValidated LC-MS method for the direct quantitative analysis of galantamine (acetylcholinesterase inhibitor) was developed in rat cerebrospinal fluid and brain homogenate besides rat plasma, utilizing structurally close nalbuphine as an internal standard. After a simple protein precipitation step, samples are separated on 2-μm C18 column kept at 40 °C, using isocratic flow of 80% methanol in pH 9.5 ammonium formate buffer, and retention times were about 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman beings are in dire need of developing an efficient treatment against fierce viruses like hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Coronavirus (COVID-19). These viruses have already caused the death of over two million people all over the world. Therefore, over the last years, many direct-acting antiviral drugs (DAADs) were developed targeting nonstructural proteins of these two viruses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe presented work comprehensively discusses omeprazole (OMZ) and its S-active isomer (esomeprazole, ESZ) different methods of analysis indexed in Web of science, Scopus and Pub-med from 2016 till now. Chromatographic methods with different detectors each to fulfill the aim of the analysis were discussed. These chromatographic methods aimed to analyze OMZ and ESZ in biological fluids in presence of other drugs and metabolites for studying drug kinetics or drug-drug interaction and enzyme polymorphism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrofluidic capillary electrophoresis (MCE) is the novel technique resulted from the CE mininaturization as planar separation and analysis device. This review presents and discusses various application fields of this advanced technology published in the period 2017 till mid-2019 in eight different sections including clinical, biological, single cell analysis, environmental, pharmaceuticals, food analysis, forensic and ion analysis. The need for miniaturization of CE and the consequence advantages achieved are also discussed including high-throughput, miniaturized detection, effective separation, portability and the need for micro- or even nano-volume of samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo chromatographic methods (high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) and high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector (HPLC-DAD)), were addressed for the analysis of a mixture consisted of phenylephrine hydrochloride and ibuprofen in two forms bulk and their combined dosage form. This binary mixture is considered to be a challenging one as the two drugs differ greatly in their chemical and physical properties. Not only this affects their simultaneous analysis, but also hinders their simultaneous extraction from biological fluids as plasma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA validated method based on capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with a diode array detector (CZE-DAD) was investigated for analyzing binary mixture of ibuprofen (IBU) and phenylephrine (PHE) in their bulk and combined dosage form. This binary mixture is a challenging one as IBU is acidic and PHE is alkaline, which may affect their simultaneous analysis using CZE. The literature lacks any CZE report for IBU and PHE simultaneous analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStereospecific separation method of (±) betaxolol, (±) carvedilol, and (±) sotalol using High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) and β-cyclodextrin as chiral selector has been developed and validated. The Box-Behnken surface response design was selected for optimizing the operating variables based on 15 trials design. The optimized method involves separation on Fluka HPTLC silica gel plates 60 F (20 × 10 cm) using acetonitrile-methanol-acetic acid-water (3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
November 2018
Two binary mixtures containing codeine (COD) with either ibuprofen (IBU), mixture 1, or with phenylephrine hydrochloride (PE), mixture 2, were analyzed using three simple eco-friendly spectrofluorimetric methods without the need to a prior separation step. The first method is derivative emission spectrofluorimetry using λ = 236 nm and 275 nm for mixtures 1 and 2, respectively. The second method is constant-wavelength synchronous spectrofluorimetry using ∆λ = 100 nm and 60 nm for mixtures 1 and 2, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
November 2018
The first spectrofluorimetric report investigating the fluorimetric behavior of the antihistaminic drug, azelastine (AZEL), and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, nepafenac (NEP), either in bulk or in their dosage forms, eye drops and ophthalmic suspension. After a full investigation of the factors that may influence their spectrofluorimetric behavior: pH, different organized media and organic solvents, the optimum factors were set in order to enable the analysis of each drug with maximum sensitivity. The AZEL spectrofluorimetric analysis was set at 286/364 (λ/λ in distilled water while for NEP, the analysis was set at 228/303 (λ/λ in methanol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
June 2018
A green, simple and cost effective chemometric UV-Vis spectrophotometric method has been developed and validated for correcting interferences that arise during conducting biowaiver studies. Chemometric manipulation has been done for enhancing the results of direct absorbance, resulting from very low concentrations (high incidence of background noise interference) of earlier points in the dissolution timing in case of dissolution profile using first and second derivative (D1 & D2) methods and their corresponding Fourier function convoluted methods (D1/FF& D2/FF). The method applied for biowaiver study of Donepezil Hydrochloride (DH) as a representative model was done by comparing two different dosage forms containing 5mg DH per tablet as an application of a developed chemometric method for correcting interferences as well as for the assay and dissolution testing in its tablet dosage form.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFValsartan (VAL) and sacubitril (SAC) are combined in a supramolecular complex, LCZ696, which is a newly approved remedy for heart failure. SAC-related substance (biphenyl methyl pyrrolidinone [BMP]) which also appears as an intermediate during SAC synthesis is considered to be a suspected impurity for SAC and/or LCZ696 tablets. The study investigates the analysis of VAL and SAC in their supramolecular complex along with SAC-related substance, BMP, using high performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with two different detectors; fluorescence detector (FLD) and diode array detector (DAD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study outlines two robust regression approaches, namely least median of squares (LMS) and iteratively re-weighted least squares (IRLS) to investigate their application in instrument analysis of nutraceuticals (that is, fluorescence quenching of merbromin reagent upon lipoic acid addition). These robust regression methods were used to calculate calibration data from the fluorescence quenching reaction (∆F and F-ratio) under ideal or non-ideal linearity conditions. For each condition, data were treated using three regression fittings: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), LMS and IRLS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
April 2018
A direct, eco-friendly, stability-indicating GC method was developed for the determination of Lacosamide (LCM) in tablet dosage forms in presence of its degradation products as well as in human urine in presence of the co-administered drug Zonisamide (ZON). The assay method in tablets was validated according to the ICH guidelines, while the method for determination of LCM in urine was validated according to FDA; Bioanalytical Method Validation guidance. Linear response (r = 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
November 2017
Ketorolac tromethamine (KTC) with phenylephrine hydrochloride (PHE) binary mixture (mixture 1) and their ternary mixture with chlorpheniramine maleate (CPM) (mixture 2) were analyzed using a validated HPLC-DAD method. The developed method was suitable for the in vitro as well as quantitative analysis of the targeted mixtures in rabbit aqueous humor. The analysis in dosage form (eye drops) was a stability indicating one at which drugs were separated from possible degradation products arising from different stress conditions (in vitro analysis).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new, simple, and specific green analytical methods are proposed: zero-crossing first-derivative and chemometric-based spectrophotometric artificial neural network (ANN). The proposed methods were used for the simultaneous estimation of two closely related antioxidant nutraceuticals, coenzyme Q10 (Q10) and vitamin E, in their mixtures and pharmaceutical preparations. The first method is based on the handling of spectrophotometric data with the first-derivative technique, in which both nutraceuticals were determined in ethanol, each at the zero crossing of the other.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLCZ696 (sacubitril/valsartan, Entresto™) is a therapy lately approved by United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) as a heart failure therapy. It is claimed to decrease the mortality rate and hospitalization for patients with chronic heart failure. This study is considered as the first report to investigate the fluorimetric behavior of sacubitril in addition to pursuing all the different conditions that may affect its fluorescence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA stereoselective high performance liquid chromatographic method with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD) was introduced for S-naproxen and esomeprazole determination in tablets. The separation was achieved on a Kromasil Cellucoat chiral column using a mobile phase consisting of hexane: isopropanol: trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) (90:9.9:0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA validated and highly selective high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) method was developed for the determination of ketorolac tromethamine (KTC) with phenylephrine hydrochloride (PHE) (Mixture 1) and with febuxostat (FBX) (Mixture 2) in bulk drug and in combined dosage forms. The proposed method was based on HPTLC separation of the drugs followed by densitometric measurements of their spots at 273 and 320 nm for Mixtures 1 and 2, respectively. The separation was carried out on Merck HPTLC aluminum sheets of silica gel 60 F254 using chloroform-methanol-ammonia (7:3:0.
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