Vinblastine and vincristine (the antileukemic agents) were isolated, in a pure form, from Catharanthus roseus L. Don., cultivated in Egypt, by several chromatographic techniques. Five modified methods for the preparation of total alkaloids were carried out. All the isolated mixtures were evaluated by HPLC and HPTLC analyses. The antineoplastic alkaloids; vinblastine and vincristine, were isolat...

A methodology based on micellar liquid chromatography to monitor five antiretroviral drugs (lamivudine, stavudine, tenofovir, zidovudine and efavirenz) was proposed. Antiretrovirals were studied in sets of three, corresponding to each highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regime, prescribed to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-infected patients. Four aqueous micellar mobile phase...

A micellar chromatographic method has been developed and validated for simultaneous separation and determination of metformin(MF), nateglinide (NT) and gliclazide (GL). The separation was carried out using a Nucleosil C18 column, 150 mm × 4.6 mm i.d., 5 μm particle size, using micellar mobile phase consisting of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), n-propanol with UV detection. The optimum conditions...

A rapid solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure was developed for the quantitative isolation of three important antipyrine (dipyrone) metabolites from human plasma: 4-formylaminoantipyrine (FAA), 4-aminoantipyrine (AA) and 4-methylaminoantipyrine (MAA). Separation and quantitation were performed using micellar liquid chromatography (MLC) with a 0.1 mol l-1 sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-2.5% penta...

Abuse of antiepileptic drugs (AED) in young generation is a rising problem in India. The problem is grave when these AEDs are taken in combination with other drugs or second or third generation AED. AEDs are now also been related with increasing suicidal tendency, thus to detect these drugs in biological fluid is an important task. By mean of this research work, efforts have been made to detect...

The use o f retent ion indices in mice l la r electrokinet ic ch roma tog raphy ( M E K C ) is eva lua ted both f rom a theoretical and a practical point o f view. F undamen t a l equa t ions for the de te rmina t ion o f retent ion indices in M E K C are descr ibed, showing that re tent ion indices are independen t o f the surfac tant concentra t ion. Possibi l i t ies as well as l imita t ion...