title: Determination of adriamycin, adriamycinol and their 7-deoxyaglycones in human serum by high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: A reversed-phase isocratic high-performance liquid chromatographic assay is described for the measurement of adriamycin, adriamycinol and their 7-deoxyaglycones in human serum. The lower limit of detection in serum is 3 ng/ml for adriamycin and 1 ng/ml for adriamycinol and the 7-deoxyaglycones with coefficients of variation for k' of less than 5% throughout the day. An extraction technique for serum is described which is capable of an almost equal recovery (greater than 77%) of adriamycin, metabolites and daunorubicin (the internal standard) without interference from endogenous components of serum. Serum concentrations of metabolites 15 min after intravenous bolus administration of 40 mg/m2 adriamycin in two different patients were 26.5 and 16.6 ng/ml for adriamycinol; 109.8 and 5.8 ng/ml for the adriamycinol 7-deoxyaglycone and 21.4 and 17.1 ng/ml for the adriamycin 7-deoxyaglycone. A total of six metabolites of adriamycin were detected in the two patients using this methodology.
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D009279:Naphthacenes / Q000097:blood; D012995:Solubility
chemical_list: D009279:Naphthacenes; C010012:adriamycin aglycone; D004317:Doxorubicin; C010013:adriamycinol