title: Reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatographic determination of cyproheptadine from urine by solid-phase extraction.
abstract: A simple, sensitive and reliable high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cyproheptadine in urine by solid-phase extraction (SPE) has been developed. The sample matrix was passed through a pre-conditioned C18 cartridge, washed with methanol-water solution (4:1) and eluted with methanol. The methanolic solution was evaporated to dryness, reconstituted with methanol and chromatographed using a C18 reversed-phase column. The mobile phase consisted of acetate buffer (constant ionic strength of 0.005 I)-methanol (56:44, v/v). Detection was performed at 254 nm with the sensitivity set at 0.002 AUFS. Concentrations as low as 50 ng/ml could be quantitatively determined by an external standard method and the overall recovery was found to be 76.16%, whereas the limit of detection was estimated as 15 ng/ml.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Kountourellis
authors.forename: K O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Ebete
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003533:Cyproheptadine / Q000652:urine*; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D003533:Cyproheptadine