Original and reproduced drugs: what do the clinician need to know?

Author:
A.V. SHCHULKIN, A.A. FILIMONOVA
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Ryazan State Medical University” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Ryazan, Russia

Place of publication:
S.S. KORSAKOV JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, 2021, Vol. 121, No. 10, Issue 2

Abstract:
This review article examines modern approaches to testing and registering generic drugs. It presents the history of generic drug research methodology and current Russian legislation. It describes the stages of confirming the equivalence of original and generic drugs: pharmaceutical equivalence, bioequivalence, and therapeutic equivalence. It also examines in detail the methods for assessing bioequivalence as a key test during generic drug registration. Using the example of the original Russian neuroprotector Mexidol (ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate) and its generic versions, it describes how legislative acts are implemented in practice. It concludes that not all generic drugs are interchangeable with the original drug.

Key words: original and generic drugs, generics, ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate, Mexidol.

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