Abstract
A simple and rapid method has been developed and validated for the quantitation of vincristine in human plasma by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization using on-line solid-phase extraction. The method uses vinblastine as internal standard and the sample preparation is limited just to a plasma protein precipitation step. Further sample clean-up is carried out on-line through a perfusion column preceding an analytical phenyl LC column, the latter directly connected to the mass spectrometer. Quantitation is performed in multiple reaction monitoring mode using the transitions of m/z 825.3 → 765.3 and 811.3 → 751.3 for vincristine and vinblastine respectively. The assay was linear (r2 ≥0.99) in a concentration range from 0.1 to 500 ng/mL. Carry-over, measured on the experimental set-up, was less than 0.04%. Recovery for vincristine and the internal standard was within 90-95%. The intra-day and inter-day assay precision ranged from 1.2% to 6.8% RSD while mean percentage deviation from nominal value ranged from 0.01% to 6.1%. The proposed assay was found suitable for pharmacokinetics investigations and clinical therapeutic drug monitoring especially in pediatric cancer patients.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 519-525 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analytical Chemistry
- Spectroscopy