BACKGROUND Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase-deficiency (G6PDd) is a major risk factor for primaquine-induced haemolysis. There is a need for improved point-of-care and laboratory-based G6PD diagnostics to unsure safe use of primaquine. METHODS G6PD activities of participants in a cross-sectional survey in Bangladesh were assessed using two novel quantitative assays, the modified WST-8 test a...

Solid-phase extraction method followed by direct UV spectrophotometry at 264 nm was developed and applied for the selective ibuprofen determination in two-component formulation of ibuprofen and pseudoephedrine-HCl, combined powder which contains ibuprofen in the form of salt with L-arginine and 10% ibuprofen cream. Procedures for ibuprofen determination in complex pharmaceutical preparations by...

A rapid and accurate method is described for the determination of diosgenin in Dioscorea conzposita roots. After acid hydrolysis and solvent extraction of the root, pure diosgenin is isolated by thin-layer chromatography, treated with sulphuric acid methanol, and the resultant chromophore is measured by spectrophotometry. Similarly, gas liquid chromatography is used to evaluate statistically th...

Background: Neonatal jaundice is an almost common problem among neonates that may cause complications such as kernicterus in severe cases. Since early diagnosis and proper treatment of neonatal jaundice is vital to prevent the related complications, it is necessary to check bilirubin before discharging the neonates. There are several evaluating and diagnostic methods to measure the level of bil...

Two methods, spectrophotometric and chromatographic-densitometric ones, were developed for determination of losartan potassium, quinapril hydrochloride and hydrochlorothiazide in pharmaceutical preparations. Spectrophotometric method involved derivative spectrophotometry and zero order spectrophotometry. The measurements were carried out at lambda = 224.0 nm for quinapril, lambda = 261.0 nm for...

The acid-base equilibrium of lorazepam was studied by means of potentiometry andmultiwavelengths spectrophotometry. The stoichiometric equilibrium constants were determinedat 25 °C and constant ionic strength 0.1 mol L-1 (NaCl). The acidity constants pK1=1.58±0.05and pK2=11.67±0.07 were found by potentiometry, and pK1=1.54±0.02 and pK2=11.61±0.03 bymulti-wavelengths spectrophotometry. Potentiom...

We standardized a method to evaluate the growth kinetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by measuring quantitatively the reduction of resazurin by spectrophotometry. Growth curves and the rate of growth of twenty-one M. tuberculosis clinical isolates were determined. The method showed technical simplicity and is inexpensive to assess the fitness of each isolate.