title: Gas--liquid chromatographic determination of toloxatone in human plasma. Routine analysis of a wide range of drug concentrations using a nitrogen-selective detector.
abstract: A selective and sensitive gas--liquid chromatographic (GLC) method has been developed for the measurement of toloxatone at therapeutic concentrations in plasma. The technique is based on a single extraction from plasma at pH 10, the preparation of a trimethylsilyl derivative and detection by a nitrogen-selective detector. The traditional calibration curve, peak-area ratio of toloxatone to internal standard versus toloxatone plasma concentration, was slightly concave for the wide concentration considered (10-3000 ng/ml). As a consequence, the linear least-squares regression analysis gave a negative intercept on the gamma-axis which affected quantitation accuracy of low plasma concentration values. A calibration method taking into consideration the non-linearity of the calibration curve is proposed. The characteristics of the detector were examined in order to analyse response linearity and sensitivity. A linear relationship was found between background current and detector sensitivity.
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D010080:Oxazoles / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D023303:Oxazolidinones; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D010080:Oxazoles; D023303:Oxazolidinones; C010798:toloxatone