Sensor Applications in Analysis of Drugs and Formulations

Rajan Thakur; Anjana Devi

doi:10.21477/ijapsr.6.4.03

Rajan Thakur Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Career Point University, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India
Anjana Devi Assistant Professor and Head of Department, School of Pharmacy, Career Point University, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21477/ijapsr.6.4.03

Keywords: Analyte, Biosensors, Drug analysis, Sensors, Signal, Transduction.

Abstract

Biosensors are currently widely used in biomedical diagnostics, as well as point-of-care assessment of therapy and disease advancement, environmental sensing, food safety, drug development, forensics, and biomedical research. Biosensors may be developed using several different approaches. Due to the growing requirement for efficient and low-cost analytical methods, biosensors have gained increasing attention for application in the quality analysis of pharmaceuticals and other pharmaceutically relevant analytes. Biosensors enable the analysis of active ingredients in pharmaceutical formulations as well as the determination of degraded products and intermediates in biological matrices. The current study discusses several types of biosensors and their applications in drug analysis and formulations.