title: Methods of analysis of chiral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
abstract: Although the analysis of the enantiomers of chiral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been carried out for over 20 years, there often remains a deficit within the pharmaceutical and medical sciences to address this issue. Hence, despite world-wide therapeutic use of chiral NSAIDs the importance of stereoselectivity in pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and pharmacological activity and disposition has often been ignored. This review presents both the general principles that allow separation of chiral NSAID enantiomers, and discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of the available chromatographic assay methods and procedures used to separately quantify NSAID enantiomers in biological matrices.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Alb., Canada.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000032:analysis*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer / Q000379:methods; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal