title: Determination of acyclovir in human serum by high-performance liquid chromatography using liquid-liquid extraction and its application in pharmacokinetic studies.
abstract: A fast, simple and sensitive high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method has been described for determination of acyclovir in human serum. Since acyclovir is a polar compound and soluble in aqueous medium and practically insoluble in most of organic solvents, its analysis in biological fluids in currently published HPLC methods, involve pre-treatment of acyclovir plasma sample including deproteinization or solid phase extraction. In present method liquid-liquid extraction of acyclovir and internal standard (vanillin) is achieved using dichloromethane-isopropyl alcohol (1:1, v/v) as an extracting solvent. Analysis was carried out on ODS column using methanol-phosphate buffer (0.05 M) containing sodium dodecyl sulfate (200 mg/L) and triethylamine (2 mL/L, v/v) as mobile phase (pH=2.3; 5:95, v/v) at flow rate of 2 ml/min. The method was shown to be selective and linear into the concentration range of 10-2560 ng/mL. Accuracy and precision of the method were also studied. The limit of quantitation was evaluated to be 10 ng/mL. This method was applied in bioequivalence study of two different acyclovir preparations after administration of 400mg in 12 healthy volunteers.
authors.affiliation: Medical Biology Research Center, Medical School, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. gbahrami@kums.ac.ir
authors.forename: Gh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bahrami
authors.forename: Sh
authors.initials: Sh
authors.lastname: Mirzaeei
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kiani
mesh_terms: D000212:Acyclovir / Q000097:blood* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012995:Solubility; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency
chemical_list: D000212:Acyclovir