Development and Validation of Stability Indicating High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method for Determination of Cyproheptadine Hydrochloride, its Impurity And Degradation Product

Improving fluorescence emission of cyproheptadine by hindering its intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer (PET): Application to content uniformity testing and human plasma

The ability to determine antihistaminic drugs in biological matrices is critical for the medication adherence assessment. Among these antihistaminic medications, cyproheptadine (CPD); that is acting as a potent first-generation antihistaminic drug that has been extensively prescribed for allergic patients. Most of the established approaches for CPD detection are not appropriate for this purpose owing to their weak sensitivity, lack of rapidity, and complicated experimental procedures. Herein, we present a very fast, highly sensitive, and reproducible approach for the detection of CPD in its pure form, tablet formulation, and spiked human plasma. The photoluminescence approach depends on hindering the intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer (PET) effect of the lone pair of the N-atom present on the piperidine ring of CPD by making the surrounding medium acidic using 1.0 M acetic acid. Based on blocking PET, the target CPD drug has been sensitively detected from 5.0 to 500 ng mL-1 with a very low detection and quantitation limit of 7.01 and 21.25 ng mL-1, respectively. Moreover, the established approach was used for checking the tablet content uniformity testing for each tablet and spiked human plasma, and noteworthy, the matrices interference was insignificant.

Green Chromatographic Assay of Toxic Impurities of Cyproheptadine: In Silico Toxicity Profiling

Cyproheptadine (CYP) is an antihistaminic and anti-serotonin drug used to improve the clinical course of hospitalized patients severely affected by COVID-19 and requiring supplemental oxygen. Thin layer chromatography (TLC)-densitometry method was developed and validated for the estimation of CYP and its impurity, dibenzosuberone and its degradation product: 10, 11-dihydroxy-dibenzosuberone. The toxicity profiles of CYP impurity and degradation product were studied and the in silico data, using pre-ADMET software, proved their toxicity. A developing system of hexane: methanol: ethyl acetate: formic acid: triethylamine (8:1:1:0.05:0.1, by volume) was used with densitometric scanning at 245 nm. International Conference of Harmonization guidelines were obeyed for method validation. The proposed method was applied on CYP pharmaceutical formulation whose results showed no significant difference from results of the reported chromatographic method regarding accuracy and precision. Method's greenness was evaluated by analytical Eco scale, Green Analytical Procedure Index, and Analytical greenness approach tools. The developed method can be applied for safety check analysis of CYP containing formulations and detection and even quantification of its related toxic components in quality control laboratories at high sensitivity up to 20-fold than the reported chromatographic method.

Establishment of ultrasensitive immunoassay strip based on colloidal gold-McAb probe for detecting cyproheptadine hydrochloride and six phenothiazines in feed

An ultrasensitive and broad-specific monoclonal antibody recognising cyproheptadine hydrochloride and six phenothiazines was produced. The 50% inhibition concentration against cyproheptadine hydrochloride was 0.036 ng/mL, and the cross-reactivities for six phenothiazines were from 6.33% to 63.16%. Based on the developed monoclonal antibody, an immunochromatographic strip was established, with the visual detection limits (cut-off values) of seven drugs ranging from 5 to 100 ng/g in feedstuffs. With the strip reader, the 50% inhibition concentration of the developed immunochromatographic strip for seven drugs ranged from 0.570 to 7.750 ng/g. The intra-assay recoveries were from 79.8% to 103.4% with the highest coefficient of variation of 11.3%. The inter-assay recoveries were from 79.0% to 96.6% with the highest coefficient of variation of 12.7%. In summary, the proposed immunochromatographic strip was considered suitable for simultaneously monitoring cyproheptadine hydrochloride and phenothiazines in feedstuffs.