High-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of cytarabine and its valyl prodrug valcytarabine in rat plasma.

Autor: Sun Y; Department of Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, China., Sun J, Wen B, Shi S, Xu Y, Chen Y, Wang Y, Pan C, Zhang C, Zhang T, He Z
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences [J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci] 2008 Jul 01; Vol. 870 (1), pp. 121-5. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 Jun 18.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2008.05.033
Abstrakt: A sensitive, specific and rapid HPLC-MS/MS method has been developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of cytarabine and valcytarabine (valyl prodrug of cytarabine) in rat plasma in the present study. The analytes were separated on a C18 column (50 mm x 2.1 mm, 1.7 microm) and a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source was applied for detection. Cation exchange solid-phase extraction cartridge was employed to extract the analytes from rat plasma, with high recovery of cytarabine (>85%). The method was linear over the concentration ranges of 10-20,000 ng/mL for cytarabine and 25-1000 ng/mL for valcytarabine. The lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ) of cytarabine and valcytarabine was 10 and 25 ng/mL, respectively. The intra-day and inter-day relative standard deviation (RSD) were less than 15% and the relative error (RE) were all within 15%. Finally, the method was successfully applied to support the prodrug pharmacokinetic study after valcytarabine and cytarabine were orally administrated to the Sprague-Dawley rat, respectively.
Databáze: MEDLINE