This study presents a new method for simultaneously quantifying a complex anti-migraine formulation containing five components (ergotamine, propyphenazone, caffeine, camylofin, and mecloxamine) using UV spectrophotometry and chemometric models. The formulation presents analytical challenges due to the wide variation in component concentrations (ERG: PRO: CAF: CAM: MEC ratio of 0.075:20:8:5:4) and highly overlapping UV spectra.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe industrial and medical sectors have a great interest in chitosan due to its unique properties, such as abundance, renewability, non-toxicity, antibacterial activity, biodegradability, and polyfunctionality. In this work, two modified chitosan Schiff bases (ChSB-1 and ChSB-2) were made using condensation methods, and their potential as corrosion inhibitor for carbon steel in 1 M HCl was investigated using chemical and electrochemical techniques. The ChSB-1 and ChSB-2 inhibitors exhibited remarkable inhibitory performance, as evidenced by the mass loss data, which showed 89.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPholcodine, an anti-tussive medication widely used as an over-the-counter, OTC drug, has recently faced restrictions in several countries. This paper presents a sensitive electrochemical approach for pholcodine detection. The electrochemical method involved fabricating a graphene nanoplatelets electrode, incorporating polythiophene nanospheres polymer to promote electron transfer and increase the activated surface area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo simple and rapid chromatographic methods were developed and validated for the analysis of levamisole and triclabendazole simultaneously in pure and pharmaceutical products. The first method is thin-layer chromatography (TLC) with densitometry, and the second method is high-performance liquid chromatography with PDA detection (HPLC-PDA). A Hypersil BDS C18 column with dimensions of 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploitation of nanocarriers provides a compartment for enclosing drugs to protect them from degradation and potentiate their therapeutic efficiency. In the current study, amitriptyline- and liraglutide-loaded proniosomes were constructed for management of diabetic neuropathy, a serious complication associated with diabetes, that triggers spontaneous pain in patients and results in impaired quality of life. The developed therapeutic proniosomes were extensively characterized via dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy.
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