title: Qualitative study of in vivo melphalan adduct formation in the rat by miniaturized column-switching liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray mass spectrometry.
abstract: In a general study of DNA adduct formation with melphalan, rats were intravenously injected with a single high dose (10 mg kg(-1)). Adduct formation was studied at the nucleoside level in the target organs liver, bone marrow, kidney and blood with the use of 2D liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Adducts of dGuo and dAdo were detected under selected reaction monitoring in liver and bone marrow 10 h after administration of melphalan. In the DNA hydrolysates from kidney and blood a Gua-melphalan adduct was found, although in very low abundance. These first results of the search for in vivo-formed melphalan adducts in the rat showed that our miniaturized LC/MS technique is useful for investigating this type of compound. More experiments will be performed in this area to gather more information about the pharmacokinetics and the quantity of adducts formed.
authors.affiliation: Nucleoside Research and Mass Spectrometry Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van den Driessche
authors.forename: Filip
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lemière
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Van Dongen
authors.forename: Annemie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van der Linden
authors.forename: Eddy L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Esmans
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D018736:DNA Adducts / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D007668:Kidney / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008558:Melphalan / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D008832:Microchemistry; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D018736:DNA Adducts; D008558:Melphalan