title: High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of vinorelbine in human plasma and blood: application to a pharmacokinetic study.
abstract: A sensitive and specific high-performance liquid chromatographic method with fluorescence detection (excitation wavelength: 280 nm; emission wavelength: 360 nm) was developed and validated for the determination of vinorelbine in plasma and blood samples. The sample pretreatment procedure involved two liquid-liquid extraction steps. Vinblastine served as the internal standard. The system uses a Spherisorb cyano analytical column (250x4.6 mm I.D.) packed with 5 microm diameter particles as the stationary phase and a mobile phase of acetonitrile-80 mM ammonium acetate (50:50, v/v) adjusted to pH 2.5 with hydrochloric acid. The assay showed linearity from 1 to 100 ng/ml in plasma and from 2.5 to 100 ng/ml in blood. The limits of quantitation were 1 ng/ml and 2.5 ng/ml, respectively. Precision expressed as RSD was in the range 3.9 to 20% (limit of quantitation). Accuracy ranged from 92 to 120%. Extraction recoveries from plasma and blood averaged 101 and 75%, respectively. This method was used to follow the time course of the concentration of vinorelbine in human plasma and blood samples after a 10-min infusion period of 20 mg/m2 of this drug in patients with metastatic cancer.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Pharmacokinetic Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, University Montpellier I, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gauvin
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pinguet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Poujol
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Astre
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bressolle
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000097:blood* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002138:Calibration; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014747:Vinblastine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000077235:Vinorelbine
chemical_list: D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D014747:Vinblastine; D000077235:Vinorelbine