Studies on Pharmaceutical Preparations. VI

Pharmaceutical Plants (plants Used in Pharmaceutical Preparations)

Preservatives in liquid pharmaceutical preparations.

Sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, and methyl hydroxybenzoate are commonly used as preservatives in liquid pharmaceutical preparations. The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of the aforementioned preservatives in pharmaceutical products, as some recent studies have reported serious side effects associated with the ingestion of these substances. The content of 37 liquid pharmaceu...

Studies on Digitalis VI

T IS undisputed that the administration of digitalis to patients with many forms of congestive heart failure results in an improvement in both the clinical state and in the abnormal circulatory dynamics that are characteristic of heart failure.'-6 The effects of digitalis in subjects without heart failure are less well defined. Although some glycosides augment the contractile force of nonfailin...

WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations.

The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations works towards clear, independent and practical standards and guidelines for the quality assurance of medicines. Standards are developed by the Committee through worldwide consultation and an international consensus-building process. The following new guidelines were adopted and recommended for use: procedure for adoption of ...

Spectrophotometric Determination of Diclofenac in Pharmaceutical Preparations

Neste trabalho é proposto um método espectrofotométrico modificado para a determinação de diclofenaco em preparações farmacêuticas. Usa-se solução de cobre(II) como reagente, o que leva à formação de um complexo cobre(II)-diclofenaco de cor verde, com máximo de absorção em 680 nm. Foram estudadas as influências: do pH; da concentração de cobre(II); do uso de ácido acético na solução de cobre(II...