CONTEXT The Medical Council of India urges doctors to prescribe generic drugs as far as possible. The Indian Medical Association had responded earlier saying that it requires guarantees on the quality of generic forms of drugs. Although no published scientific reports are available on the issue of therapeutic inequivalence, unconfirmed clinician accounts and newspaper reports of therapeutic ine...

The aim of the study was to assess the bioequivalence and tolerability of two different oral formulations of rizatriptan. A bioequivalence study was carried out in 40 healthy volunteers according to an open label, randomized, two-period, two-sequence, crossover, single dose, and fasting conditions design. The test and reference formulations were administered in two treatment days, separated by ...

The objective of this study was to assess the bioequivalence between the omeprazole laboratory based formulation and the commercial formulation, Zimor Rubio, Spain, considered as reference formulation. The experiment was carried out according to a 2-period, 2-sequence crossover design with a two week washout period. A validated high performance liquid chromatographic method was applied for in v...

The relative bioavailability of the test (generic) product 2 × 25 mg baclofen tablets, with respect to the reference product, Lioresal® 2 × 25 mg tablets (baclofen; Squibb) was determined in a single-blind, single dose, randomised, crossover study. The mean values for the variable Cmax were 737.6 ng/ml for the reference and 739.5 ng/ml for the test product. The mean values for the variable AUC ...

The governments of many countries strongly support the production and clinical use of generic medicinal products which are “copies” of patented drugs and can be marked at lower cost. At present time bioequivalence testing is regarded as a useful methodology to perform comparisons among different products containing the same active ingredient. This report presents the results of comparative bioe...

The aim of this study is to assess the quality of Valzan(®) tablet (160 mg, valsartan immediate release test formulation) by comparing its pharmacokinetic parameters with Diovan(®) tablet (160 mg, valsartan reference formulation). Valzan(®) tablets were prepared according to a dry granulation method (roll compaction). To assess the bioequivalence of Valzan(®) tablets a randomized, two-way, cros...

Bacterial resistance and antibiotic drug effectiveness can be related to administering generic products with a subtherapeutic dose or poor in vivo drug release. The aim of this study was to investigate whether locally marketed amoxicillin tablets have the required chemical and physical attributes, including in vitro bioequivalence performance. Five generic products (T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5) cont...

The objective of this study was to investigate the bioequivalence of two formulations of 5 mg donepezil HCL tablets: Tonizep as the test and Aricept as the reference. The two products were administered as a single oral dose according to a randomized two-phase crossover with a 3-week washout period in 20 healthy Thai Male volunteers. After drug administration, serial blood samples were collected...

In the pharmacokinetic (PK) study under a 2x2 crossover design that involves both the test and reference drugs, we propose a mixed-effects model for the drug concentration-time profiles obtained from subjects who receive different drugs at different periods. In the proposed model, the drug concentrations repeatedly measured from the same subject at different time points are distributed accordin...

The relative bioavailability of the test (generic) product 2 × 25 mg baclofen tablets, with respect to the reference product, Lioresal® 2 × 25 mg tablets (baclofen; Squibb) was determined in a single-blind, single dose, randomised, crossover study. The mean values for the variable Cmax were 737.6 ng/ml for the reference and 739.5 ng/ml for the test product. The mean values for the variable AUC ...