title: Rapid and simple high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of nimesulide in human plasma.
abstract: A high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the quantitation of nimesulide in human plasma is presented. The method is based on protein precipitation with methanol and reversed-phase chromatography with spectrophotometric detection at 404 nm. The separation was performed on a Nucleosil 120-5 C18, 50 x 4-mm I.D. column and the mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-methanol-15 mM potassium dihydrogenphosphate buffer, pH 7.3 (30:5:65, v/v). Only 250 microl of plasma are used for sample preparation and no internal standard is necessary. The limit of quantitation is 80 ng/ml and the calibration curve is linear up to 10,000 ng/ml. More than 20 samples can be analysed within 1 h. Within-day and between-day precision expressed by relative standard deviation is less than 5% and inaccuracy does not exceed 8%. The assay was used for pharmacokinetic studies.
authors.affiliation: Pharmakl SRO, Prague, Czech Republic. pharmakl@mbox.vol.cz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ptácek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Macek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klíma
mesh_terms: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000097:blood* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D002138:Calibration; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013449:Sulfonamides / Q000097:blood* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics
chemical_list: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D013449:Sulfonamides; C012655:nimesulide