title: Rapid determination of 5-fluorouracil in plasma using capillary electrophoresis.
abstract: A rapid, simple and sensitive capillary electrophoresis (CE) method used for the determination of 5-fluorouracil in rabbit plasma is described in the present paper. In this method, samples were simply pretreated by a solvent extraction procedure prior to injection. With a running buffer composed of 30 mM Tris-H(3)PO(4) (pH 7.0) and 5% isopropanol, 5-fluorouracil was easily separated from the external standard alpha-phenethylol as well as other substances existed in the plasma. A linearity of 5-fluorouracil was determined in the range from 0.17 to 42.50 microg/ml with a correlation coefficient of 0.999. A limit of quantitation (LOQ) corresponding to signal-to-noise ratio of 10 was obtained (LOQ=0.08 microg/ml). The method was successfully used for determining the 5-fluorouracil in real plasma samples from rabbits.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Feng Lin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Hao-jie
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Yin-long
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qing-yu
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Ou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000097:blood*; D011817:Rabbits; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D005472:Fluorouracil