Drug stability analyzer for long duration spaceflights

Chetan Shende; Wayne Smith; Carl Brouillette; Stuart Farquharson

doi:10.1117/12.2054288

5 June 2014 Drug stability analyzer for long duration spaceflights

Chetan Shende, Wayne Smith, Carl Brouillette, Stuart Farquharson

Proceedings Volume 9112, Sensing Technologies for Global Health, Military Medicine, and Environmental Monitoring IV; 91120R (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054288
Event: SPIE Sensing Technology + Applications, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Crewmembers of current and future long duration spaceflights require drugs to overcome the deleterious effects of weightlessness, sickness and injuries. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that some of the drugs currently used may degrade more rapidly in space, losing their potency well before their expiration dates. To complicate matters, the degradation products of some drugs can be toxic. Consequently there is a need for an analyzer that can determine if a drug is safe at the time of use, as well as to monitor and understand space-induced degradation, so that drug types, formulations, and packaging can be improved. Towards this goal we have been investigating the ability of Raman spectroscopy to monitor and quantify drug degradation. Here we present preliminary data by measuring acetaminophen, and its degradation product, p-aminophenol, as pure samples, and during forced degradation reactions.

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Chetan Shende, Wayne Smith, Carl Brouillette, and Stuart Farquharson "Drug stability analyzer for long duration spaceflights", Proc. SPIE 9112, Sensing Technologies for Global Health, Military Medicine, and Environmental Monitoring IV, 91120R (5 June 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054288

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