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A liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method for determination of aristolochic acid‐I in rat plasma
Author(s) -
Liu Yiming,
Lin Aihua,
Wu Zhifeng,
Ou Runmei,
Huang Haiding
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
biomedical chromatography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-0801
pISSN - 0269-3879
DOI - 10.1002/bmc.1267
Subject(s) - chemistry , chromatography , aristolochic acid , liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry , tandem mass spectrometry , mass spectrometry , tandem , genetics , biology , materials science , composite material
Abstract A sensitive, rapid and specific liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization–tandem mass spectrometry method was developedand validated for the determination of aristolochic acid‐I (AA‐I) in rat plasma. Finasteride was used as the internal standard (IS). The analyte was separated on a Zorbax Eclipse XDB‐C 18 column by isocratic elution with methanol‐10 mM ammonium acetate (75:25, v/v, pH = 7.3) at a flow rate of 0.25 mL/min, and analyzed by mass spectrometry in positive multiple reaction monitoring mode. The precursor‐to‐product ion transitions of m/z 359.0 → 298.2 and m/z 373.1 → 305.2 were used to detect AA‐I and IS, respectively. Good linearity was achieved over a range of 0.4–600 ng/mL. Intra‐ and inter‐day precisions measured as relative standard deviation were less than 13.5%, and accuracy ranged from 94.2 to 97.5%. The developed method was successfully applied in the pharmacokinetic study of AA‐I in rats. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.