AIMS This bioequivalence study aimed to compare rate and extent of absorption of a generic medicinal product of ibandronic acid 150-mg film-coated tablet versus Bonviva(®). METHODS This was a single-centre, open-label, randomized, three-way, three-sequence, reference-replicated, crossover bioequivalence study, under fasting conditions. A single oral dose of ibandronic acid as one 150-mg film-...

To evaluate globally the average bioequivalence of a test drug to a reference drug in a pharmacokinetic (PK) study under a 2 x 2 crossover design, we consider directly comparing the associated drug concentration-time curves. Statistical models for the drug concentrations are suggested when the concentrations measured at different time points are distributed according to a generalized gamma dist...

PURPOSE The purpose of this computer simulation was to determine the likelihood of two bioequivalent (vs. reference) generic warfarin formulations (with varying bioavailability) passing current bioequivalence criteria against each other at varying bioavailability. Methods. A bioequivalence simulation program generated 100 warfarin bioequivalence (BE) studies with 24 patients/study. The referenc...

BACKGROUND Preclinical studies comparing paclitaxel formulated with polyethoxylated castor oil with the sonicated formulation of liposome-entrapped paclitaxel (LEP) have demonstrated that LEP was associated with reduced toxicity while maintaining similar efficacy. Preliminary studies on the pharmacokinetics in patients support earlier preclinical data, which suggested that the LEP Easy-to-Use (...

The FDA Biopharmaceutical Classification System guidance allows waivers for in vivo bioavailability and bioequivalence studies for immediate-release solid oral dosage forms only for BCS class I. Extensions of the in vivo biowaiver for a number of drugs in BCS class III and BCS class II have been proposed, in particular, BCS class II weak acids. However, a discrepancy between the in vivo BE resu...

For approval of generic drug products, bioequivalence testing is considered as a surrogate for clinical evaluation of the therapeutic equivalence of drug products based on the Fundamental Bioequivalence Assumption that when two drug products (e.g., a brand-name drug and its generic copy) are equivalent in bioavailability, they will reach the same therapeutic effect. Although bioavailability for...

Atenolol is a selective β1 receptor antagonist that is available as a racemic mixture. The objective of this study was to compare the pharmacokinetics and evaluate the bioequivalence of 50 mg atenolol test and reference formulations in 24 healthy Korean male volunteers.This study was a single-dose, randomized, open-label, 2 period crossover study. 24 healthy Korean male volunteers randomly rece...

Background: This study investigated the safety (cytotoxicity in vitro) and pharmacological effects (ocular hypotensive effects and aqueous humor concentrations in normotensive monkeys in vivo) of latanoprost formulations with benzalkonium chloride (latanoprost with BAK) and without BAK (NP). Methods: A bioequivalence study of latanoprost with BAK and NP was also conducted on human healthy volun...

*Corresponding author E mail: [email protected] J. Pharm. BioSci. 2(2014) 44-49 Abstract This study was to compare the bioavailability and pharmacokinetic properties of test product of Metformin hydrochloride extended release formulation of 1000 mg tablet with reference product of Metformin Hydrochloride (Glucophage®) extended release formulation of 1000 mg in Indian healthy male vo...