Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 401, Issue 7, Pages 2215-2223Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-011-5324-5
Keywords
Dextromethorphan; Solid-phase extraction; Pipette tip; Gas chromatography; Mass spectrometry
Funding
- Japan society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23590857, 21590744] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Dextromethorphan was extracted from human plasma samples (100 mu L) using MonoTip C(18) tips, which are packed with C(18)-bonded monolithic silica gel that is attached to the inside of the tip. The samples, which contained dextromethorphan and trimeprazine as an internal standard (IS), were mixed with 200 mu L of distilled water and 50 mu L of 1 mol/L glycine-sodium hydroxide buffer (pH 10). The mixture was extracted to the C(18) phase of the tip by 20 sequential aspirating/dispensing cycles using a manual micropipettor. The analytes retained on the C(18) phase were then eluted with methanol by five sequential aspirating/dispensing cycles. The eluate was injected directly into a gas chromatograph and detected by a mass spectrometer with selected ion monitoring in positive electron ionization mode. An Equity-5 fused silica capillary column (30 mx0.32 mm i.d., film thickness 0.5 mu m) gave adequate separation of the dextromethorphan, IS, and impurities. The recoveries of dextromethorphan and the IS spiked into plasma were >87.4%. The regression equation for dextromethorphan showed excellent linearity from 2.5 to 320 ng/mL of plasma, and the limit of detection was 1.25 ng/mL of plasma. The intraday and interday coefficients of variation were less than 10.5% and 14.7%, respectively. The accuracy ranged from 91.9% to 107%. The validated method was successfully used to quantify the plasma concentration of dextromethorphan in a human subject after oral administration of the drug.
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