title: Determination of sinefungin in rat plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of sinefungin, a new antiprotozoal drug, in rat plasma has been developed and validated. Sample preparation was performed at 4 degrees C by deproteinization with acetonitrile. Vidarabine was used as an internal standard. Both sinefungin and vidarabine were separated on a C18 column with a mobile phase of ammonium dihydrogenphosphate-acetonitrile (95:5, v/v) and detected by ultraviolet absorbance at 260 nm. Recoveries of sinefungin from plasma were 75 +/- 3.2% and 81 +/- 4.8% following dosage at concentrations of 10 micrograms/ml and 30 micrograms/ml, respectively. Using 250 microliters of rat plasma, the limit of quantitation was 1 microgram/ml sinefungin, and the assay was linear from 1 to 30 micrograms/ml. This method appears sensitive enough to be used in further pharmacokinetic studies of sinefungin in animal models.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Pharmacochimie de Biopharmacie, U.F.R. de Médecine-Pharmacie, Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tharasse-Bloch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brasseur
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Favennec
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marchand
mesh_terms: D000241:Adenosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D000818:Animals; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000097:blood*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014740:Vidarabine
chemical_list: D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents; D014740:Vidarabine; D000241:Adenosine; C006235:sinefungin