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hydroquinone [6]. A very few analytical methods are available for the
estimation of drugs like tazarotene and hydroquinone in combination N
research work. The developed method is also been validated as per Tazarotene Hydroquinone
ICH guidelines [14]. The scope of developing and validating and Figure 1:
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Table 3: Recovery studies for accuracy of formulation. then filtered through Whatman filter paper No.41 and first few ml
80 100 120 were rejected. From the above solution 1.0ml of solution was taken
Level of Recovery (%)
TAZA HYDRO TAZA HYDRO TAZA HYDRO and diluted to 10ml with diluent to get a solution containing 1µg/ml
of tazarotene, and 40µg/ml of hydroquinone respectively. Absorbance
2 10 2 10 2 10
of the sample was recorded at 294.0 and 351.0nm respectively and
Amount Present (mg) 2 10 2 10 2 10 analysis procedure was repeated six times with gel formulation.
2 10 2 10 2 10 Concentration of drugs in the sample was determined using
1.6 8 2 10 2.4 12 absorbance of sample.
Amount of Std. Added
(mg)
1.6 8 2 10 2.4 12 Validation of developed method
1.6 8 2 10 2.4 12 Linearity: Linearity of analytical procedure is its ability (within
1.58 8.01 2 10.01 2.39 11.98 a given range) to obtain test, which are directly proportional to
absorbance of analyte in the sample. The calibration plot was
Amount Recovered (mg) 1.59 7.99 1.99 10 2.4 12
constructed after analysis of five different (from 1 to 5 μg/ml for
1.6 8 2.01 9.99 2.39 11.99 tazarotene and 10 to 50 μg/ml for hydroquinone) concentrations and
98.75 100.13 100 100.1 99.58 99.83 absorbance for each concentration were recorded three times, and
% Recovery 99.38 99.88 99.5 100 100 100 mean absorbance was calculated (Table 1 & 2).
100 100 100.5 99.9 99.58 99.92 Accuracy: Recovery studies were performed to validate the
accuracy of developed method. To pre-analysed sample solution, a
Table 4: Statistical validation of recovery studies. definite concentration of standard drug (80%, 100%, and 120%) was
Level of
Drug
% Standard
% RSD added and then its recovery was analyzed and result was shown in
Recovery (%) Recovery Deviation*
Table 3 and statistical validation of recovery studies shown in Table 4.
Tazarotene 99.38 0.625 0.628931
80
Hydroquinone 100 0.125 0.125
Precision:
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Results and Discussion 6. Lowe N, Horwitz S, Tanghetti E, Draelos Z, Menter A. Tazarotene versus
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(A) Repeatability:-
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Conclusion 8. Jogarami R, Jain P, Sharma, S. Validated UV spectrophotometric method
The validated spectrophotometric method employed here proved development for simultaneous estimation of tazarotene and hydroquinone in
gel preparation. J Pharm Res. 2012; 5: 2273-2275.
to be simple, economical, rapid, precise and accurate. The method
can be used for routine simultaneous determination of tazarotene and 9. Patel M, Patel R, Parikh J, Patel B. HPTLC method for estimation of
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each drug separately.
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Authors are thankful to Vice-chancellor Banasthali Vidyapith for 11. Badawy A, Abd E, Saad A. Stability-indicating spectrophotometric methods
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