Revista Iberica de Parasitologia 65 (1-4), 21-36 (2005). Review on the TLC literature in helminthology from 1996 to 2004. Principles and practices of modern TLC for the analysis of lipids, amino acids, carbohydrates and pigments in helminths such as various species of trematodes, cestodes and nematodes are described.

Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy 21, 818-823 (2011). This review describes recent advances in HPTLC automatization as a useful tool for the analysis of complex mixtures of natural products. The author also compares HPTLC with TLC and HPLC. The review provides a general perspective for HPTLC fingerprint approach for the analytical determination of botanicals.

Cent. Eur. J. Chem. 12(4), 427-452 (2014). This review summarizes and discussed the most important advances in planar chromatography published between November 1, 2011 and November 1, 2013. Included are an introduction to the current status of the field; student experiments, books, and reviews; theory and fundamental studies; apparatus and techniques for sample preparation, sample application, plate development; detection and identification of separated zones (chemical and biological detection, TLC-MS and TLC coupled with other spectrometric methods); techniques and instruments for quantitative analysis; preparative layer chromatography; thin-layer radiochromatography. The review features numerous applications on various substances and sample matrices and a comprehensive list of 250 references.

Trends in Analytical Chemistry 52 (2013) 155-169. Review and discussion of carbohydrates as functional ingredients in herbs and functional foods and their analysis with different techniques. Various references on HPTLC methods for mono-, di-, oligo-, and polysaccharides are listed (HPTLC generally on silica gel, detection with diphenylamine-aniline-phosphoric acid).

J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Technol. 39, 385-393 (2016). Review of the new plates that have been commercialized, mainly silica gel and bonded silica gel-prepared plates, including plate sizes, binders, fluorescent indicators, plate thickness, multi-layer plates, channeled plates and sample location in the sorbent layer. New experimental synthesis routes to prepare ultra TLC plates were also reviewed. _x000D_
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Food Control. 72, 145-152 (2017). The paper discussed five important adulteration events that occured in Taiwan between 2011 and 2015, including a review of analytical methods developed by the Taiwnan Food and Drug Administration to investigate these incidents, including HPTLC methods for the detection of copper chlorophyll, Cu-pyropheophytin A, from slurry green dyes obtained from edible oils. _x000D_
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Trends Anal. Chem. 91, 1-11 (2017). Review of analytical methods for the analysis of signaling molecules used for bacterial communication, including TLC bioassays for the determination of Pseudomonas quinolone signal in P. aeruginosa strains and for the detection and characterization of all the signaling molecules.

J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Technol. 41, 282-300 (2018). Review of TLC methods used for the analysis of 20 of the most used spices (chilies, pepper, ginger and mustard from hot spices; coriander, paprika and turmeric from mild spices and ajwain, allspice, cardamom, cassia, cinnamon, clove, cumin, dill, fennel, fenugreek, mace, nutmeg and saffron from aromatic spices). The comprehensive review included TLC methods for determination of antioxidant activity, antibacterial/antimicrobial activity, enzyme inhibitory activity, antifungal acivity and estrogen-like activators.