Pharmacopeial specifications and analytical data from post-marketing quality sampling and testing programs: A perspective beyond out-of-specification results.

Ensuring that marketed medicines meet acceptable standards (safety, quality, and efficacy) involves aspects of product development, compliance with good manufacturing practices, and monitoring and testing of these products already on the market. Pharmacopeias are one of the main tools used by regulatory authorities in the analytical testing for quality assessment; there are almost 60 pharmacopeias in the world. Thus, this research evaluated the potential impacts of the differences between the pharmacopeial specifications in the quality assessment of these products.

Triterpenes from Pouteria ramiflora (Mart.) Radlk. Leaves (Sapotaceae).

Pouteria ramiflora (Mart.) Radlk. (Sapotaceae) is a species used by inhabitants from the Cerrado for its edible fruits and medicinal value.

Pouteria torta epicarp as a useful source of α-amylase inhibitor in the control of type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes plays a major role in public health, affecting about 400 million adults. One of the used strategies to control type 2 diabetes is the inhibition of α-amylase activity to reduce post-prandial blood glucose levels. Therefore, in past decades, the search of new α-amylase inhibitors has led to the evaluation of natural products as a source of these compounds.

Inhibitory activity of α-amylase and α-glucosidase by plant extracts from the Brazilian cerrado.

Diabetes mellitus is the most common disease in the world. One therapeutic approach for treating diabetes is inhibition of α-amylase and α-glucosidase activities to reduce postprandial blood glucose levels. In vitro tests showed that several plant extracts from Brazilian cerrado species can inhibit the activity of α-amylase and α-glucosidase.