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Items |
Specification |
Result |
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Appearance |
White to off-white powder or particles |
Conforms |
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Active substance |
≥95.0% |
96.09% |
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PH |
5.0-7.0 |
6.46 |
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Water |
≤5.0% |
3.68% |
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Heavy metal |
≤20ppm |
<10ppm |
Introduction
Adrenocorticotropic hormone is used as a medication and as a diagnostic agent in the ACTH stimulation test.
The form that is purified from pig pituitary glands is known as corticotropin (INN, BAN) is a medication and naturally occurring polypeptide tropic hormone produced and secreted by the anterior pituitary gland.
The function of SODIUM STEAROYL GLUTAMATE
Both corticotropin and tetracosactide have been used for diagnostic purposes to determine adrenocortical insufficiency, particularly in Addison's disease, via the ACTH stimulation test. However, as of 2015, the US label for corticotropin does not include diagnostic use.
Both corticotropin and tetracosactide have been used for therapeutic purposes. In the US the tetracosactide label is limited to diagnosis but the UK label provides for therapeutic uses.
In the US corticotropin is used to treat epileptic spasms in infants, acute exacerbations of multiple sclerosis in adults; acute episodes of psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis; in acute exacerbations or as maintenance therapy for the collagen disorders like systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic dermatomyositis; for skin conditions like severe erythema multiforme and Stevens-Johnson syndrome; for serum sickness; for severe acute and chronic allergic and inflammatory processes involving the eye such as keratitis, iritis, iridocyclitis, diffuse posterior uveitis, choroiditis, optic neuritis, chorioretinitis, and anterior segment inflammation; sarcoidosis in the lungs; and to treat edema in certain nephrotic syndromes.
In the UK tetracosactide is used for short-term therapy in conditions for which glucocorticoids are usually used but for some reason should not be; some uses include use for people who don't respond to glucocorticoids or cannot tolerate them who have ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or osteoarthrosis.
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