Combining subsidiary and synchronous approaches for concurrent spectrofluorimetric assurance of lopinavir and ritonavir in tablets utilized in convention for treatment of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) and biological fluids.

In this think about, assurance of lopinavir and ritonavir down to organic concentration level has been carried out. The assurance is based on expanding the selectivity of the spectrofluorimetric procedure by combining both subordinate and synchronous spectrofluorimetric approaches, which allow effective estimation of lopinavir at 248.8 nm and ritonavir at 300.1 nm within the nearness of each other at Δλ of 60 nm. Worldwide Conference on Harmonization approval rules were taken after to completely approve the strategy, and linearity was gotten for the two drugs over the extend of 0.4-2.4 µg mL-1 for Lopinavir and 0.1-0.6 µg mL-1 for ritonavir. Application of of the strategy was successfully carried out within the commercial tablets with great understanding with the comparison strategies. As the detection limits were down to 0.133 and 0.022 µg mL-1 and quantitation limits were 0.395 and 0.068 µg mL-1 for lopinavir and ritonavir, individually; the in vivo assurance of lopinavir and ritonavir in spiked plasma tests was pertinent. The rate recuperations in natural tests were 99.10 ± 0.77 and 99.54 ± 0.60 for lopinavir and ritonavir, individually. Water was utilized as the ideal weakening dissolvable within the proposed strategy which includes an eco-friendly justify.

Potential repurposed SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection drugs.

The global outbreak of COVID-19 viral infection is associated with the absence of specific drug(s) for fighting this viral infection. About 10 million people are already infected, about 500 000 deaths all over the world to date. Great efforts have been made to find solutions for this viral infection, either vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, or small molecule drugs; this can stop the spread of infection to avoid the expected human, economic and social catastrophe associated with this infection. In the literature and during clinical trials in hospitals, several FDA approved drugs for different diseases have the potential to treat or reduce the severity of COVID-19. Repurposing of these drugs as potential agents to treat COVID-19 reduces the time and cost to find effective COVID-19 agents. This review article summarizes the present situation of transmission, pathogenesis and statistics of COVID-19 in the world. Moreover, it includes chemistry, mechanism of action at the molecular level of the possible drug molecules which are liable for redirection as potential COVID-19 therapeutic agents. This includes polymerase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, malaria drugs, lipid lowering statins, rheumatoid arthritis drugs and some miscellaneous agents. We offer research data and knowledge about the chemistry and biology of potential COVID-19 drugs for the research community in this field.