A floating type of dosage form of ranitidine hydrochloride in the form of microspheres capable of floating on simulated gastric fluid was prepared by solvent evaporation technique. Microspheres prepared with ethyl cellulose, Eudragit(®) RS100 alone or in combination were evaluated for percent yield, drug entrapment, percent buoyancy and drug release and the results demonstrated satisfactory per...

Two simple, precise and economical UV methods have been developed for the simultaneous estimation of Sitagliptinphosphate Metformin hydrochloride in bulk pharmaceutical dosage form. Method A is Absorbance maximamethod,whichisbasedonmeasurementofabsorptionatmaximumwavelengthof266nmand232nmforSitagliptinphosphateandMetforminhydrochloriderespectively.MethodBisareaundercurve(AUC),inthewavelength ra...

InnoPran XL (propranolol hydrochloride) is a nonselective, beta-adrenergic receptorblocking agent for oral administration, available as an extended release product. InnoPran XL is available as 80 mg and 120 mg capsules which contain sustained-release beads. Each of the beads contains propranolol hydrochloride and is coated with dual membranes. These membranes are designed to retard release of p...

Sir,?In reply to Capt. T. D. W. Gillespie's inquiry in the Novtmber issue of the I. M. Q. as to the quantity of quinine urea hydrochloride to be injected hypodermically to produce local anaesthesia, I may say as follows: In the New York Medical Journal (1915, II, 708) Amster recommends quin-urea hydro as a local anaesthetic. He has performed 200 severe operations with a freshly prepared solutio...

Young albino rats (120-190 g) were divided in 4 groups (6 animals per group). One group was injected with clonidine hydrochloride (100 ",g/kg. ip); another group received equivalent volume of normal saline only. The third group also received clonidine but was given phenoxybenzamine hydrochloride (10 mg/kg. ip) 1 hr before clonidine Injection. The fourth group received phenoxybenzamine hydrochlo...

BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The binding ability of a drug to serum albumin has influence on the pharmacokinetics of a drug. In the present study, the mutual interaction of anticancer drug erlotinib hydrochloride with bovine serum albumin (BSA) using fluorescence and UV/vis spectroscopy was investigated. METHODS The BSA solution (0.1 mM) was prepared daily in Tris buffer (0.05 mol ...

Major uses Thioridazine hydrochloride (further thioridazine) is a representative of phenothiazine compounds, and it is an antipsychotic drug (synthesized in 1959). It relieves tension and anxiety, and acts against multiple symptoms, e.g. agitation, depression, behavior problems and sleep disturbances. Thioridazine is also effective in controlling the symptoms of schizophrenia, mania, and other ...

HYPOTHESIS Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) meperidine hydrochloride can be used with a reasonable margin of safety. DESIGN A retrospective review was performed of 355 medical records of patients receiving IV PCA meperidine treatment. Four groups of patients were defined, based on daily meperidine dose and the presence or absence of central nervous system excitation adverse e...

Clonidine hydrochloride is an antihypertensive agent used for migraine prophylaxis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, menopausal flushing and Tourette syndrome. The quantity of the active substance in pharmaceutical preparations must be within specific limits, in agreement with the respective label claim. Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish the conditions for two spectroph...