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Bedaquiline, sold under the brand name Sirturo, is a medication used for the treatment of active tuberculosis. [1] Specifically, it is used to treat multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis along with other medications for tuberculosis.
5-10% of the drug (active substance); 80% of fillers, disintegrants, lubricants, glidants, and binders; and; 10% of compounds which ensure easy disintegration, disaggregation, and dissolution of the tablet in the stomach or the intestine. The dissolution time can be modified for a rapid effect or for sustained release.
Medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacy involved with designing and developing pharmaceutical drugs. Medicinal chemistry involves the identification, synthesis and development of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use.
Pharmaceutical chemistry: the study of drug design to optimize pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and synthesis of new drug molecules (Medicinal Chemistry). Pharmaceutics : the study and design of drug formulation for optimum delivery , stability , pharmacokinetics, and patient acceptance .
The use of charcoal as a medicinal product can be traced back to Egypt in 1500 BC, where it was used to neutralise bad odours from wounds. By 400 BC, the Phoenicians used charcoal to improve the taste of water stored on ships by containing the water in charred barrels , indicating that an understanding of charcoal's ability to adsorb ...
All plants produce chemical compounds as part of their normal metabolic activities. These phytochemicals are divided into (1) primary metabolites such as sugars and fats , which are found in all plants; and (2) secondary metabolites —compounds which are found in a smaller range of plants, serving more specific functions. [ 8 ]
A drug class is a group of medications and other compounds that share similar chemical structures, act through the same mechanism of action (i.e., binding to the same biological target), have similar modes of action, and/or are used to treat similar diseases. [1] [2] The FDA has long worked to classify and license new medications.
Book of Optics (c. 1000) - Exerted great influence on Western science. [16] It was translated into Latin and it was used until the early 17th century. [ 17 ] The German physician Hermann von Helmholtz reproduced several theories of visual perception that were found in the first Book of Optics , which he cited and copied from.