GLC analysis of metapyrilene in plasma and urine using a sulfur-specific flame-photometric detector

Autor: R.E. Schirmer, R.J. Pierson
Rok vydání: 1973
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Zdroj: Journal of pharmaceutical sciences. 62(12)
ISSN: 0022-3549
Popis: A GLC procedure was developed for analysis of methapyrilene in blood and urine. Samples are extracted with chloroform, dried, dissolved in methanol, and injected on a 1.22- m. (4-ft.) glass column packed with 1% cyclohexanedimethanol succinate and 10% of a 5 %-substituted phenyl methyl silicone on acid-washed, silylated diatomaceous earth and operated at 220°. A sulfur-specific flame-photometric detector is used, which allows concentrations as low as 50 ng./ml. to be measured. Methapyrilene was not detected in plasma or urine of human subjects receiving normal clinical doses of methapyrilene hydrochloride, but a methapyrilene metabolite was found in the urine samples. The absence of detectable levels of methapyrilene is probably due to rapid conversion of this compound to a metabolite that is not detected by the GLC procedure.
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