The relation between the depth of pigment disposition and men's skin thickness, the age and tattoo locations on the body.

The most important function of the skin is to protect the body against harmful mechanical, physical and chemical factors. Its regenerative capacity is sufficient for self-repair in the event of damage, for example, during tattooing, which can be treated as an invasive procedure introducing pigment molecules into skin layers. In the present research on tattoo pigment deposition, the structure of the dermis and epidermis was evaluated using the standard histological technique with hematoxylin and eosin staining. In addition, statistically significant differences between the depth of pigment deposition on the one hand and age, dermis and epidermis thickness and tattoo location on the other were demonstrated.

Quantitative analysis of phenobarbital in dosage form by thin-layer chromatography combined with densitometry.

In this paper, a high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) method combined with densitometry has been described. Chromatography was performed on silica gel Si 60F254 plates using dichloromethane-ethyl acetate-formic acid (9.5 +/- 0.5 +/- 0.1, v/v) mobile phase. This method has been successfully applied for the determination of phenobarbital in pharmaceuticals. Obtained results were comparable with traditionally used column high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods. For the proposed procedure, linearity (r > 0.999), sensitivity (limit of detection 0.4 microg/spot), recovery (97.8-102.1%), and repeatability were found to be satisfactory. The HPTLC-densitometry method has many advantages, such as simplicity, reasonable sensitivity, rapidity, and low cost, and it can be successfully used in routine quality control of multidrug preparations containing barbiturates.