Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr El-Aini St, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Drug Test Anal. 2011 Apr;3(4):228-33. doi: 10.1002/dta.216. Epub 2010 Dec 29.
In this study, the simultaneous determination of diclofenac potassium (DP) and methocarbamol (MT) by chemometric approaches and artificial neural networks using UV spectrophotometry has been reported as a simple alternative to using separate models for each component. Three chemometric techniques-classical least-squares (CLS), principal component regression (PCR), and partial least-squares (PLS)-along with radial basis function-artificial neural network (RBF-ANN) were prepared by using the synthetic mixtures containing the two drugs in methanol. A set of synthetic mixtures of DP and MT was evaluated and the results obtained by the application of these methods were discussed and compared. In CLS, PCR, and PLS, the absorbance data matrix corresponding to the concentration data matrix was obtained by the measurements of absorbances in the range 260-310 nm in the intervals with Δλ = 0.2 nm in their zero-order spectra. Then, calibration or regression was obtained by using the absorbance data matrix and concentration data matrix for the prediction of the unknown concentrations of DP and MT in their mixtures. In RBF-ANN, the input layer consisting of 251 neurons, 9 neurons in the hidden layer, and 2 output neurons were found appropriate for the simultaneous determination of DP and MT. The accuracy and the precision of the four methods have been determined and they have been validated by analyzing synthetic mixtures containing the two drugs. The proposed methods were successfully applied to a pharmaceutical formulation containing the examined drugs.
在这项研究中,报道了一种通过化学计量学方法和人工神经网络同时测定双氯芬酸钾(DP)和甲氨蝶呤(MT)的方法,这是一种替代分别为每个组分建立模型的简单方法。使用甲醇中两种药物的合成混合物,制备了三种化学计量学技术-经典最小二乘法(CLS)、主成分回归(PCR)和偏最小二乘法(PLS),以及径向基函数-人工神经网络(RBF-ANN)。对 DP 和 MT 的一组合成混合物进行了评估,并对应用这些方法得到的结果进行了讨论和比较。在 CLS、PCR 和 PLS 中,通过在其零阶光谱中以 Δλ = 0.2nm 的间隔测量 260-310nm 范围内的吸光度,获得与浓度数据矩阵相对应的吸光度数据矩阵。然后,通过使用吸光度数据矩阵和浓度数据矩阵进行回归,获得了预测混合物中 DP 和 MT 未知浓度的校准或回归。在 RBF-ANN 中,输入层由 251 个神经元、隐藏层中的 9 个神经元和 2 个输出神经元组成,对于同时测定 DP 和 MT 是合适的。通过分析含有两种药物的合成混合物,确定了这四种方法的准确性和精密度,并对其进行了验证。该方法成功地应用于含有被检查药物的药物制剂中。