Publications by authors named "Enas H Tolba"

Herein, a novel UV spectrophotometric method coupled with chemometric tools was developed for the simultaneous determination of three fluoroquinolone antibiotics: ciprofloxacin, lomefloxacin, and enrofloxacin. Such integration of UV spectroscopy and chemometric analysis proved to be a simple, rapid, and cost-effective approach for the quantification of these clinically important pharmaceutical compounds and aid in their quality control analysis. The method employed firefly algorithm for variable selection and partial least squares (PLS) regression for model calibration.

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Quinolone and sulfonamide are two classes of antibacterial agents with an opulent history of medicinal chemistry features that contribute to their bacterial spectrum, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, and adverse effect profiles. The urgent need for their use, combined with the escalating rate of their resistance, necessitates the development of suitable analytical methods that accelerate and facilitate their analysis. In this study, the advanced firefly algorithm (FFA) coupled with support vector regression (SVR) was used to select the most significant descriptors and to construct two quantitative structure-retention relationship (QSRR) models using a series of 11 selected quinolone and 13 sulfonamide drugs, respectively, to predict their retention behavior in HPLC.

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Herein, a simple spectrophotometric method coupled with chemometric techniques i.e. partial least square (PLS) and genetic algorithm (GA) were utilized for the simultaneous determination of the vital ternary antiretroviral therapy dolutegravir (DTG), lamivudine (LMV), and abacavir (ACV) in their combined dosage form.

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The justified continuous emerging of new β-lactam antibiotics provokes the need for developing suitable analytical methods that accelerate and facilitate their analysis. A face central composite experimental design was adopted using different levels of phosphate buffer pH, acetonitrile percentage at zero time and after 15 min in a gradient program to obtain the optimum chromatographic conditions for the elution of 31 β-lactam antibiotics. Retention factors were used as the target property to build two QSRR models utilizing the conventional forward selection and the advanced nature-inspired firefly algorithm for descriptor selection, coupled with multiple linear regression.

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Two stability-indicating reversed-phase liquid chromatographic methods were developed and validated for the determination of fluorometholone (FLU) in its mixtures with sodium cromoglycate (SCG) and tetrahydrozoline hydrochloride (THZ). The first HPLC method (Method 1) was based on isocratic elution of FLU and SCG along with their alkaline degradation products on a reversed phase C18 column (250 × 4.6 mm id)-ACE Generix 5, using a mobile phase consisting of methanol-water (70 : 30, v/v), pH adjusted to 2.

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