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...

Sera from patients being treated with phenytoin were analyzed for the drug by spectrophotometry, gas chromatography, radioimmunoassay, enzyme immunoassay, and liquid chromatography. The essay values obtained were intercompared statistically. Enzyme immunoassay and liquid chromatography appear to be attractive alternatives to the more traditional methods of spectrophotometry and gas chromatograp...

Various aspects of application of derivative spectrophotometry in chemical analysis and in investigations of equilibria and kinetics of reactions are scrutinized. The presented paper provides useful information about state-of-the-art and possibilities offered by derivative spectrophotometry in pharmaceutical, clinical or environmental fields of analysis.

Ultraviolet spectrophotometry has been successfully used for the qualitative as well quantitative determination of various phytoconstituents. For phytoconstituents in extract by ultraviolet spectrophotometry, absorbance at specific wavelength is measured. As a mixture number constituents, different constituents same along with compound interest can occur giving wrong interpretation observed dat...