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Determination of tricyclic antidepressants in human plasma using pipette tip solid‐phase extraction and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
Author(s) -
Lee XiaoPen,
Hasegawa Chika,
Kumazawa Takeshi,
Shinmen Natsuko,
Shoji Yukiko,
Seno Hiroshi,
Sato Keizo
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.200700627
Subject(s) - chromatography , chemistry , solid phase extraction , elution , imipramine , extraction (chemistry) , mass spectrometry , gas chromatography , analyte , centrifugation , gas chromatography–mass spectrometry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
A method for the simultaneous extraction of four tricyclic antidepressants from human plasma samples using pipette tip SPE with MonoTip C 18 tips is presented. Human plasma (0.1 mL) containing four tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline, amoxapine, imipramine, and trimipramine) and an internal standard (IS), protriptyline, was mixed with 0.4 mL of distilled water and 100 μL 1 M NaOH solution. After centrifugation of the mixture, the supernatant was extracted to the C 18 phase of the tip by 20 repeated aspirating/dispensing cycles using a manual micropipettor. The analytes retained in the tip were eluted with methanol by five repeated aspirating/dispensing cycles. Without evaporation and reconstitution, the eluate was directly injected into a gas chromatograph injector and detected by a mass spectrometer with SIM in the positive‐ion electron impact mode. Recovery of the four antidepressants and IS spiked into human plasma was 80.2–92.1%. The regression equations for the four antidepressants showed excellent linearity in the range of 0.2–40 ng/0.1 mL. LODs and LOQs for the four drugs were 0.05–0.2 ng/0.1 mL and 0.2–0.5 ng/0.1 mL, respectively. Intra‐ and interday CVs for the four drugs in plasma were no greater than 9.5%.