Sensitive and selective silver nanoparticle-based fluorescence sensor for corticosteroid determination in pharmaceutical formulations

Table 5 Analysis of the studied drugs in their commercial preparations using the proposed method

Parameter	Pedicort^® Syrup (5.0 mg PDN/5mL)			Dexamethone sodium phosphate^® ampule (8.0 mg DXZ/2mL)
	Conc. taken (µg/mL)	% Found ^a	Comparison method [21]	Conc. taken (µg/mL)	% Found ^a	Comparison method [23]
	Conc. taken (µg/mL)	% Found ^a	% Found ^a	Conc. taken (µg/mL)	% Found ^a	% Found ^a
	1.0	99.80	100.00	4.0	100.00	100.80
	2.0	101.20	99.16	6.0	98.40	101.40
	6.0	99.40	100.93	10.0	100.40	100.00
			101.60
Mean		100.13	100.25		99.60	100.73
SD		0.95	1.24		1.06	0.70
t-test			0.13 (2.77) *			1.55(2.77) *
F-test			1.72(19.00) *			2.27(19.00) *

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