“…In recent years, numerous publications have been devoted to the application of HPTLC methods in pharmaceutical analysis (Sherma, 2010;Askal et al, 2008;Kadam, Bari, 2007;Mhaske, Dhaneshwar, 2007). For example, the following cases can be mentioned: determination of amantadine, an antiviral drug, in pharmaceu tical formulations (Askal et al, 2008), simultaneous analysis of valsartan and hydrochlorothiazide, an antihypertensive drug, in tablet formulation (Kadam, Bari, 2007), determination of omeprazole, a proton pump inhibitor, in capsule form (Jha et al, 2010), simultaneous quantitation of paracetamol, diclofenac potassium, and famotidine in tablet formulation (Khatal et al, 2010), determination of imatinib (Vadera, Subramanian, Musmade, 2007) and dasatinib (Mhaske, Dhaneshwar, 2007) as anticancer medicines in pharmaceutical form.…”