The absorbance of filtrate was measured using placebo NLCs formulation as a blank at 261 nm after 10 times dilution by using UV-Spectrophotometer (UV-1601PC, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto). The drug content (DC) of FLZ-NLCs was calculated using the formula given below:
For presence of free drug in FLZ-NLCs formulation, 0.5 mL of the formulation and placebo NLCs were taken in two different microcentrifuge tubes and diluted with 0.5 mL of milli Q water which was centrifuged using cooling centrifuge (Sigma Laborzentrifugen GmbH, 3K30, Germany) at 54,200 g for 30 min at 4 °C. The supernatant was collected and filtered using a syringe filter (0.22 µ). The absorbance of filtrate was measured at 261 nm by using UV -Spectrophotometer (UV-1601PC, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto) (Pardeike et al., 2011) . The entrapment efficiency (EE) of FLZ-NLCs was calculated using the formula: