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Novel Simultaneous Separation and Quantitative Determination of Telmisartan, Losartan, Olmesartan and Irbesartan in Presence of Hydrochlorothiazide by Isocratic RP-HPLC
Panchumarthy Ravisankar*1, C. Vineela1, O. Sai Koushik1, P. Srinivasa Babu1
1Panchumarthy Ravisankar, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Assurance, Vignan Pharmacy College, Vadlamudi, Guntur (Dist) – 522 213, A.P state, India. 1C. Vineela, Vignan Pharmacy College, Vadlamudi, Guntur – 522 213, A.P state, India. 1O. Sai Koushik, Vignan Pharmacy College, Vadlamudi, Guntur – 522 213, A.P state, India. 1P. Srinivasa Babu, Vignan Pharmacy College, Vadlamudi, Guntur – 522 213, A.P state, India.
Abstract:
For the first time simple, selective, sensitive, rapid isocratic RP-HPLC method was developed for the separation and quantitative development Telmisartan (TEL), Losartan (LOS), Olmesartan (OLM) and Irbesartan (IRB) are angiotensin II-receptor antagonists which are used in the treatment of hypertension alone or in combination with other drugs mainly Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ). The most important advantage of developed method was that the five separate drugs can be determined on a single chromatographic system without modifications in detection wavelength and mobile phase by RP-HPLC. RP-HPLC method was developed by using Welchrom C18 column (4.6 X 250 mm, 5 µm) as stationary phase with the mobile phase comprising of phosphate buffer pH-3.3 and acetonitrile in the portion of 50:50 v/v. Isocratic elution at a flow rate of 1ml/min was employed. The detection was performed with Shimadzu SPD-20A prominence UV-Vis detector set at 232 nm. Total run time was 8 minutes and the elution window of only two minutes. The proposed method was statistically validated in terms of linearity, precision, accuracy, specificity, robustness and ruggedness. The optimized method proved to be specific, robust and accurate for the quality control of four above said angiotensin-II receptor blockers alone or in presence of HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with OML and HCTZ with IRB in bulk drug and pharmaceutical formulations.
Key words: Telmisartan, Losartan, Olmesartan, Irbesartan, Hydrochlorothiazide
Corresponding author Dr. Panchumarthy Ravisankar M.Pharm., Ph.D.
Flat no. 501, Door no.4-1-16,
Sapthagiri Sesha Sai Sadan,
Andhra Pradesh, India.
INTRODUCTION Angiotensin antagonists are the first major innovation in essential hypertension management as a first-line treatment. Anti-hypertensive agents are largest drug class and hold a major share of drug market, as hypertension is a major cause of health
problems. The estimated market sales of anti-hypertensive agents are $29.6 billion in 2014. For providing safe, effective drug formulations to consumers direly needed. So innovative analytical methods are necessary for controlling
their quality and quantity of drugs. HCTZ acts as both RAS and sympathetic nerve system there by creating greater sensitivity to angiotensin receptor blockage. Thus HCTZ is a good choice for use in combination with an ARB. ACE inhibitors are having major drawback of cough, when compared to ARBs. All the available ARBs are in fixed-dose combination with HCTZ
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Literature survey revealed that there were few analytical methods have been reported for the estimation of above titled drugs individually, binary or in combination with some other drugs in biological samples as well as pharmaceutical dosage forms by spectrophotometry [1-3], TLC-densitometry and spectrofluorimetric method [4], Capillary electrophoresis [5-7], HPLC [8-20], RP-HPTLC [21], LC-MS [22-25], LC-MS/MS [26-29], MSC for the online solid - phase extraction [30]. Thus we have decided to develop an efficient new method that could determine all these four drugs individually and also even binary combinations ( HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with OML and HCTZ with IRB) without changing the detection wave length and chromatographic conditions. By keeping all the above main points in view, it is worthwhile to develop a method which is simple, specific, precise, accurate, sensitive, economical and fast. The most important advantage of developed method was that the five separate drugs individually or in binary combination can be determined on a single chromatographic system without modifications in detection wavelength and mobile phase composition by RP-HPLC. Chemical Structures of HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML and IRB used for the present study are depicted in Figure1
N
NCH3
CH3
N
N
CH3
HO
TEL
NNN
HN
OML
N
N OH
H3C
O
NNN
HNN N
O
IRB
SNH
HN
O O
Cl
SO O
H2N
HCTZ
NNN
HNN N
ClOH
LOS
Figure 1.Chemical Structures of HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML and IRB
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The above said standard drugs were gifted from
Hetero Labs Ltd., Hyderabad India. All other
chemicals and solvents were of the highest
grade. HPLC grade acetonitrile and
triethylamine were obtained from Merck
pharmaceuticals private Ltd., Mumbai, India.
Methanol and water utilized were of HPLC
grade and purchased from Merck specialties
private Ltd., Mumbai, India. Commercial tablets
of above said formulation was procured from
local pharmacy
PREPARATION OF PH 3.3 PHOSPHATE BUFFER:
A 10 mM phosphate buffer was prepared by dissolving 6.056 g of potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate in 445 ml of HPLC grade water. To this 55 ml of 0.1 M phosphoric acid was added and pH was adjusted to 3.3.
PREPARATION OF MOBILE PHASE:
The above prepared buffer and acetonitrile were mixed in the proportion of 50: 50 v/v and was filtered through 0.45 µm nylon membrane filter and degassed by sonication. PREPARATION OF STOCK STANDARD SOLUTIONS: Stock standard solutions containing (1.25, 0.4, 0.5, 0.8, 1.5 mg/ml) of Hydrochlorothiazide, Telmisartan, Losartan, Olmesartan, Irbesartan, respectively were prepared by dissolving (12.5, 40, 50, 80, 150 mg) of each in methanol in 100 ml volumetric flask respectively. It was then sonicated for 15 minutes and the final volume of solutions was made up to 100 ml with methanol to get stock standard solutions.
PREPARATION OF CALIBRATION PLOT
(working standard solutions)
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Each solution (n=5) was injected in triplicate and chromatographed under the mentioned conditions above. Linear relationships were obtained when average drug standard peak area were plotted against the corresponding concentrations for each drug. Regression equation was computed.
SAMPLE PREPARATION
A composite of ten Cresar-H, Olmax-H, Hyzaar, Irovel-H tablet, were prepared by grinding them to a fine, uniform size powder, triturated using mortar and pestle. After calculating the average
tablet weight, amounts of powder equivalent to HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML, IRB, respectively were prepared by dissolving (12.5, 40, 50, 80, 150 mg) respectively of each type of tablets were accurately weighed and transferred separately to 100 ml volumetric flasks respectively. Solutions were sonicated for 15 min and the solutions were then filtered through 0.45 µm nylon membrane filters. Aliquots of appropriate volume (10 ml) were transferred to 100 ml calibrated flasks and diluted to volume with mobile phase to furnish the mentioned concentration above.
Table 1. System suitability and column performance parameters.
Parameter Chromatographic conditions for four sartans & Hydrochlorothiazide
Instrument Shimadzu LC-20AT Prominence liquid chromatograph
Column Welchrom C18 column (4.6 X 250 mm, 5 µm)
Detector Shimadzu SPD-20A prominence UV-VIS detector
Mobile phase 10 mM phosphate buffer (pH 3.3) : Acetonitrile 50:50, v/v
Flow rate 1mL/min
wave length UV at 232 nm Run time 8 minutes
Temperature Ambient temperature (25 0C)
Injection volume 20 µL
Name of the drugs HCTZ TEL LOS OML IRB
Retention time (minutes)
3.297 3.777 4.463 5.243 5.563
Th.Pl (Efficiency) 11,196 11,379 13,625 15,231 16,058
Resolution - 3.615 4.675 4.844 2.057
Tailing factor 1.194 1.150 1.182 1.100 1.154
OPTIMIZATION AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT:
A series of trials were conducted for optimization of mobile phase in order to get
proper optimized HPLC conditions. In the first instance several mobile phase trials were done such as commonly used mixture of solvents methanol: water, acetonitrile: HPLC grade water, methanol: acetonitrile: water in different
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ratio and adjusting pH to obtain required separations. Finally after reviewing the results, a mobile phase consisting of phosphate buffer mixture properly adjusted to pH 3.3, acetonitrile in the proportion of 50:50 v/v which full-fill all the criteria of system suitability and also obtain a better separation conditions which result better resolution, good peak shape, short run time, minimal peak tailing and reproducibility results were identified. So this mobile phase was selected for the present investigation. The stationary phase made up of Welchrom C18 column with 4.6 X 250 mm, 5 µm were observed and they are found to be utmost suitable for separation of four Sartans along with HCTZ. The ultra violet spectrum of four Sartans scanned individually in the region between 200 - 400 nm. The UV overlain spectra of these four drugs showed that they absorbed at 232 nm. So this wavelength was selected for the determination of sartans. Figure 2 shows UV overlain spectra of four sartans with HCTZ. A
model chromatogram which shows how the peaks are well separated for the 4 sartans along with HCTZ is presented in Figure 3. The retention times for HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML and IRB were found to be 3.297, 3.777, 4.463, 5.243, 5.563 minutes respectively. System suitability and column performance parameters are shown in Table 1.
Figure 2. UV overlain spectra of the four sartans & HCTZ
Figure 3. A typical chromatogram showing the separation of HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML, IRB in a synthetic mixture
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METHOD VALIDATION
The developed method of analysis was validated as per the ICH Q2 (R1) [ 31] guidelines for the parameters like system suitability, specificity, linearity, precision, accuracy, robustness, limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ).
SYSTEM SUITABILITY (SST):
At first allow the HPLC system to stabilize for forty minutes. SST was carried out to verify the parameters such as resolution (NLT 2.0), tailing factor (NMT 1.5), and theoretical plate count (NLT 3000). If system suitability parameters are met, then inject sample preparation in duplicate and record the chromatograms and the system
suitability and column performance parameters are shown in Table 1. SPECIFICITY: This method was conducted by assessing whether excipients present in the pharmaceutical formulations interfered with the analysis or not. A placebo for each tablet was mixed by adding the respective excipients in mobile phase without the drug. Infact drug to excipients ratio utilized were similar to that in the commercial formulations and solutions were prepared by above said sample preparation procedure. The commonly used tablet excipients like HPMC, PEG, purified talc, microcrystalline cellulose and titanium dioxide in tablet formulations. The mixture was filtered through 0.45µm membrane filters before injection. The specificity study table is shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Results of specificity.
Name HCTZ TEL HCTZ LOS HCTZ OML HCTZ IRB
Mobile
phase
No peaks No
peaks
No
peaks
No
peaks
No peaks No
peaks
No peaks No peaks
Placebo No peaks No
peaks
No
peaks
No
peaks
No peaks No
peaks
No peaks No peaks
Individual
Separate
standard
solutions.
Peak for HCTZ at
3.297 min. and
3.777 min. for
HCTZ and TEL
respectively.
Peak for HCTZ at
3.297 min. and
4.463 min. for
HCTZ and LOS
respectively.
Peak for HCTZ at
3.297 min. and
5.243 min. for
HCTZ and OLM
respectively.
Peak for HCTZ at 3.297
min. and 5.563 min. for
HCTZ and IRB
respectively.
LINEARITY:
The linearity of the method was studied by analyzing different concentration of the drugs. According to ICH recommendations at least five concentrations are to be used. In this study five Concentrations were chosen, in the ranges of 2.5-12.5, 5-50, 8-40, 16-80, 30-150 µg/ml. The
linearity of peak area responses versus concentrations was demonstrated by linear least square regression analysis. The linear regression equations were Y = 88.146 X + 0.0586 (r2= 0.9997), Y = 27.099 X - 6.5173(r2= 0.9998), Y = 21.431 X - 8.5685 (r2 =0.9997), Y = 53.466 X -
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25.101 (r2= 0.9981), Y = 7.9362 X + 13.668 (r2= 0.999) for HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML and IRB respectively. Where Y is the peak area of
standard solution and X is the drug concentration
Figure 4. Standard chromatogram of Hydrochlorothiazide.
Figure 5. Standard chromatogram of Telmisartan.
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Figure 6. Standard chromatogram of Losartan.
Figure 7. Standard chromatogram of Olmesartan.
Figure 8. Standard chromatogram of Irbesartan.
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Figure 9. Standard chromatogram of HCTZ and TEL.
Figure 10. Standard chromatogram of HCTZ and LOS.
Figure 11. Standard chromatogram of HCTZ and OML.
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Figure 12. Standard chromatogram of HCTZ and IRB.
PRECISION:
The repeatability and intermediate precision
experiments were conducted by determining the
inter - day and inter - day precision of the
method for HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS,
HCTZ with OML and HCTZ with IRB. The
intraday precision was done by repeating the
assay thrice for the 3 levels in the same day,
under the same experimental conditions and
inter - day precision was done by taking over the
assay on 3 different days, three times on the
each day for the 3 concentration levels
respectively. The results of precision study were
stated in terms of % RSD. The percent relative
standard deviation (% RSD) was calculated
which is within the acceptable criteria of not
more than 2.0. The results of precision study are
presented in Tables 2.
ACCURACY/RECOVERY STUDIES:
The accuracy of the method was assessed by
standard addition method. Recovery tests were
carried out by analyzing mixtures of HCTZ
with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with OML
and HCTZ with IRB with different
compositions. Known amounts of standards
drugs were added to a pre-analyzed sample at 3
different levels 80 %, 100 % and 120 % and the
mixed standard solutions were analyzed in
triplicate at every level as per suggested method.
The percent of individual combination of
mixtures recovery and % RSD results of
accuracy data is shown in Table 2.
ROBUSTNESS:
The robustness of developed analytical
method was proven by the analysis of with TEL,
HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with OML and HCTZ
with IRB under different experimental
conditions such as making deliberate changes in
chromatographic conditions like flow rate (± 0.2
ml/min), detection wavelength (±5 nm) and
Mobile phase composition (±5 %). All results
were well within acceptable limits.
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LOD and LOQ:
Limit of Detection is the lowest concentration in
a sample that can be detected, but not
necessarily quantified under the stated
experimental conditions. The limit of
quantitation is the lowest concentration of
analyte in a sample that can be determined with
acceptable precision and accuracy. Limit of
detection and limit of quantitation were
calculated using following formula LOD =
3.3σ/S and LOQ = 10σ/S, where SD = standard
deviation of response (peak area) and S = slope
of the calibration curve. The LOD and LOQ
results are shown in Table 2.
Stability of Analytical Solution
Generally stability of analytical solution was
evaluated by monitoring the peak area response.
Standard stock solutions were analyzed after
one, two and three days after at 50 C and for a
day at room temperature. These solutions were
found to be stable for three days at 50 C and for
a day at room temperature also.
APPLICATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL
PREPARATION:
The developed method was finally
successfully applied for quantitative
determination of marketed formulation such as
CRESAR-H 40 mg, Hyzaar 50 mg, Olmax-H 40
mg, Irovel-H 150 mg. Six replicate
determinations were performed. Excellent
results were obtained for each compound. The
mean assay values were in good agreement with
the label claim (Table 2).
Table 2: Summary of validation of various parameters
Formulation (tablets) Composition
Linearity (µg/mL)
LOD & LOQ
(µg/mL) Assay ± SD (n=6)
Mean % recovery ± SD (n=3)
Precision
Intra-day (n=6) (%
RSD)
Inter-day (n=3)
(% RSD)
CRESAR-H 40 mg)
TEL 8- 40 0.565 &
1.867 99.97 ± 1.12
100.09 ± 0.71
0. 127 0.167
HCTZ 2.5 - 25
0.298 & 0.980
98.14 ± 0.32 100.05 ±
0.16 0.132 0.324
Hyzaar 50 mg LOS 5- 50 0.731 & 2.414
99.88 ± 1.14 100.02 ±
0.16 0.342 0.324
HCTZ 2.5 - 25
0.297 & 0.980
98.18 ± 0.42 99.98 ± 0.12 0.127 0.432
Olmax-H (40mg) OML 16 - 80 1.198 & 3.953
99.99 ± 1.12 100.45 ±
0.40 0.432 0.654
HCTZ 2.5 - 25
0.295 & 0.980
99.15 ± 0.12 99.97 ± 0.13 0.168 0.324
Irovel-H (150mg) IRB 30 -150 1.220 & 4.026
100.15±1.30
100.47 ± 0.4 0.467 0.324
HCTZ 2.5 - 25
0.296 & 0.980
99.59 ± 0.12 99.96 ± 0.15 0.213 0.435
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:
The main objective of the present study is to
develop a rapid, new, simple, precise and
accurate Reversed Phase - High Pressure liquid
chromatographic methods for simultaneous
separation and quantitative determination of
HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with
OML and HCTZ with IRB in combination tablet
dosage form. When developing a new method
one of the prominent goals is to achieve a
consistent reproducible separation by selecting a
highly reproducible high performance liquid
chromatography method which is essential to get
the required goal. However, trial and error
methods were taken up prior to identifying the
best operational and environmental conditions
for optimizing suitable methods for separations.
Since the all the above stated drugs are relatively
polar, a RP-HPLC method was selected for the
initial separation process. C18 column with a 4.6
mm internal diameter, 250 mm length and 5
micron particle size was preferred and a number
of trials were performed using different buffer
solutions of different pH ranges with different
compositions of mobile phases, variable flow
rate and column temperature. Finally an
optimum separation condition was achieved with
a mixture of phosphate buffer (pH-3.3) and
acetonitrile in a composition of 50:50 v/v. A
mobile phase flow rate adjusted at 1mL/min, a
common detection wavelength was set at 232
nm for all the drugs, and the column temperature
was kept at ambient conditions. After the
adjustment of such operational parameters at
their corresponding optimum values, better
chromatographic peak was obtained with
characterizes of well resolution, good symmetry
and minimal peak tailing.
The proposed method was validated as per the
ICH guidelines with regard to specificity,
linearity, precision, accuracy, robustness and
LOD and LOQ. As per the prescribed
guidelines, system suitability was conducted to
ensure the suitability of complete testing system
for the intended purpose. As a result system
suitability parameters such as resolution, number
of theoretical plates, tailing factor of the peaks
were computed for the optimized
chromatographic condition for the proposed
method. Accordingly 3.297, 3.777, 4.463, 5.243
and 5.563 minutes of retention time, 11,196,
11,379, 13,625, 15,231 and 16,058 of plate
number, 1.194, 1.150, 1.182, 1.100 and 1.154
tailing factors were obtained for HCTZ, TEL,
LOS, OML and IRB respectively. The resolution
for TEL, LOS, OML and IRB were 3.615,
4.675, 4.844 and 2.057. As all of these results
were within the acceptable limit, the method is
suitable for the intended purpose of estimation
of the above said drugs.
Linearity of the proposed method was evaluated
by taking five points concentrations. All
calibration curves for 5 drugs showed linearity
over a concentration ranges in the ranges of 2.5-
12.5, 5-50, 8-40, 16-80, 30-150 µg/ml for
HCTZ, TEL, LOS, OML and IRB respectively
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and for Creshar-H 40 mg tablet, 8-40 µg/mL for
TEL and 2.5-25 µg/mL for HCTZ; for Hyzaar
50 mg tablet, 5-50 µg/mL for LOS and 2.5-25
µg/mL for HCTZ; for Olmax-H 40 mg tablet
16-80 OML µg/mL and 2.5-25 µg/mL for
HCTZ; for Iovel-H 150 mg tablet, 30-150 µg/ml
for IRB and 2.5-25 µg/mL for HCTZ. The
corresponding correlation coefficient were also
calculated from the linear regression analysis
and found to be above 0.9998 in all cases. In all
the above cases, the calculated results showed
that they were within the acceptable limits. The
said results indicate that there exist strong linear
relationship between concentrations of each drug
and their peak areas.
As stated by ICH guideline a mixture of pure drug samples combined with suitable excipients were injected to the system to test specificity of the proposed method for quantifying the all drugs individually and also combination of two drugs HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with OML and HCTZ with IRB to test specificity of all these drugs. In the similar manner synthetic mixture solutions as well as blank solution with only generally utilized excipients were also injected separately. The peak response for the analyte and the blank were compared with each relevant drug. The results showed no interference due to the commonly used excipients. Therefore the method lucidly proves to be specific for estimating the above stated drugs. Precision of the method was evaluated by utilizing intra-day and inter-day studies. Different concentration levels were taken in triplicate samples and evaluated for the repeatability and intermediate precision of the method. The samples used were standard quality. For intra and inter-day precision the % RSD values for each drug were evaluated and
found RSD percentages of all above specified drugs were found less than 2 % which can be showed the present method is precise. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed
method by combining the known amount of pure
standard drugs to pre-analyzed samples at 80 %,
100 % and 120 % (three levels) and the recovery
levels were keenly examined. The said solutions
were again prepared and analyzed in triplicate
thoroughly. The above process was followed for
all the single drugs as well as combination of
HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with
OML and HCTZ with IRB as specified above
and found % RSD was also established to be less
than 2 % for each drug. Robustness was
determined by assessing duly effecting slight
changes in chromatographic conditions such as
lambda max, mobile phase composition and
flow rate. In the chromatograms the author
found that there were no any marked changes.
The results are well within the acceptable limits.
Therefore the method found to be remaining
uninterrupted even though tiny changes effected
to the chromatographic conditions. The results
relating to limit of detection (LOD) and limit of
quantitation (LOQ) for HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ
with LOS, HCTZ with OML and HCTZ with
IRB combination of drugs were found to be
0.298 µg/mL and 0.980 µg/mL; 0.565 µg/mL
and 0.565 µg/mL, 0.298 µg/mL and 0.980
µg/mL; 0.731 µg/mL and 2.414, 0.298 µg/mL
and 0.980 µg/mL; 1.198 µg/mL and 3.953
µg/mL, 0.298 µg/mL and 0.980 µg/mL; 1.220
µg/mL and 4.026 respectively. These results
specifically show that the method has relatively
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lower LOD and LOQ values. The developed
method was eventually applied for quantification
of marketed formulation. The mean assay values
for HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ
with OML and HCTZ with IRB combination of
drugs were found to be 98.14 ± 0.32 and 99.97
± 1.12; 98.18 ± 0.42 and 99.88 ± 1.14; 99.15 ±
0.12 and 99.99 ± 1.12; 99.59 ± 0.12 and 100.15
± 1.30 respectively and by the developed
method all the said drugs were perfectly
recovered from the tablet dosage form. Thus the
method invented by the author was found to be
aptly suitable for determination of the
commercial formulations.
Figure 13. Sample chromatogram of HCTZ and TEL.
Figure 14. Sample chromatogram of HCTZ and LOS.
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Figure 15. Sample chromatogram of HCTZ and OML.
Figure 16. Sample chromatogram of HCTZ and IRB 10 μg/ml.
CONCLUSION: Statistical analysis lucidly proves that it is
feasible for analysis of said ARBs in their
formulations in single run without changing the
mobile phase composition and chromatographic
conditions. This method was very fast, cost
effective, precise, accurate sensitive, highly
efficient, robust and congenial than the existing
adopted methods hitherto. It is noticed that the
method is free from interferences of the
excipients and additives utilized in the
preparation of above stated ARB's after
validation. This new RP-HPLC method
satisfactorily separated all the above said
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combination drugs with short retention time
(eight minutes and elution window of only two
minutes), optimum peak shape, good separation
and best reproducible results. Hence, it is apt to
conclude that it is successfully feasible for the
application of routine analysis of said ARB's
agents individually or binary combinations of
HCTZ with TEL, HCTZ with LOS, HCTZ with
OML and HCTZ with IRB in quality control
laboratories for usual analysis.
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