Thursday, November 20, 2008

Glove compartment research

Good news, we have been analyzing the glove compartment samples over the course of this semester and I think we are seeing some interesting results! Thanks again to all of you who helped us out. As soon as we have numbers that will make sense, we'll share them with you.

In other news, we just presented a poster at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on our other Ibuprofen research. At this time we think that there are some inactive ingredients that promote degradation of ibuprofen, especially one called polyethylene glycol, which is also called PEG. Our results to date show that all tablets that contain PEG degrade more quickly than those that don't.

A student who came to see our poster and asked a lot of questions brought up an interesting point. She works in a pharmacy and they always tell people that generics are the same as name-brand medications. That is true for the drug molecule used, but the inactive ingredients can be very different for different manufacturers. So if the inactive ingredients result in different amounts of degradation, generics can be considered different in that way.

We were offline for awhile, but now we have a new instrument and we are moving ahead with the research! Thanks for your interest!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a few hundred 200mg tablets from Leiner which you culd use in your research... They expired in SEP 2007... I would love to know what impurities exist after a few years sitting on my desk.

Marcus Easley said...

Ibuprofen pain only helps low but hydrocodone relieves all types of pain.

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