title: Enantioselective determination of drugs in body fluids by capillary electrophoresis.
abstract: During the past decade, chiral capillary electrophoresis (CE) emerged as a promising, effective and economic approach for the enantioselective determination of drugs in body fluids, hair and microsomal preparations. This review discusses the principles and important aspects of CE-based chiral bioassays, provides a survey of the assays developed and presents an overview of the key achievements encountered. Applications discussed encompass the pharmacokinetics of drug enantiomers, the elucidation of the stereoselectivity of drug metabolism and bioanalysis of drug enantiomers of toxicological and forensic interest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaugg
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Thormann
mesh_terms: D001826:Body Fluids / Q000737:chemistry*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations