title: High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of pentamidine in plasma.
abstract: This report describes the analysis of pentamidine by isocratic reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using a commercially available compound (melphalan) as the external standard. Previously described assays use ion-pairing HPLC, an internal standard (hexamidine) that is not readily available, and require a relatively large sample size. In the present assay, pentamidine was extracted from plasma using solid-phase extraction and was analyzed using a C18 column and a mobile phase containing 18% acetonitrile, 2% methanol, 0.2 M ammonium acetate and 0.5% triethylamine. The identity of the eluting peaks was verified using a diode array detector. The extraction yield of pentamidine was 82%. The limit of detection was 8.6 ng/ml with a sample size of 100 microliters. The inter-day and intra-day coefficients of variation ranged between 0.3% and 10% with an average of 5%. This method was applied to study the pharmacokinetics of pentamidine in rodents.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Dalton
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Au
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D005260:Female; D006207:Half-Life; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008558:Melphalan; D010419:Pentamidine / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D010419:Pentamidine; D008558:Melphalan