ArticleAdvances in pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences2025
Smartphone-Assisted Thin-Layer Chromatography for Rapid Quality Screening of Metformin.
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- Innovative Biosensor Platforms for the Detection of Metformin in Diabetes Management.International journal of analytical chemistry · 2026Review
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Abstract
Type II diabetes remains a significant global public health issue, affecting both individual well-being and healthcare systems worldwide. Metformin hydrochloride is widely prescribed as the first-line treatment for managing diabetes. However, the increasing reports of substandard and falsified medicines, including metformin, circulating in the markets in recent years, highlights the urgent need for reliable and portable quality assurance tools. Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) has long been extensively used as a screening method to verify the identity and quality of various medicines. In this work, we present a smartphone-assisted TLC method for quantitative analysis of metformin hydrochloride. The TLC was performed using silica gel 60 F
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