title: Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method for the quantification of deserpidine in human plasma: Application to a pharmacokinetic study.
abstract: A sensitive and rapid liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometric (LC/MS/MS) method was developed and validated for the determination of deserpidine in human plasma. The plasma samples were prepared using liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) with ethyl ether-dichloromethane (3:2, v/v). Chromatographic separation was accomplished on an Ultimate XB-C18 column. The mobile phase consisted of methanol-5mM ammonium acetate-formic acid (72:28:0.036, v/v/v). Detection of deserpidine and the internal standard tropisetron was achieved by tandem mass spectrometry with an electrospray ionization interface in positive ion mode. The lower limit of quantification was 4.0pg/ml. The linear range of the method was from 4.0 to 2000pg/ml. The intra- and inter-day precisions were lower than 14.7% in terms of relative standard deviation (RSD), and the accuracy was within +/-8.7% in terms of relative error (RE). This validated method was successfully applied for the evaluation of pharmacokinetics of deserpidine after a single oral administration dose of 0.25mg deserpidine to 22 healthy volunteers.
authors.affiliation: Center for Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 646 Songtao Road, Shanghai 201203, PR China.
authors.forename: Huaicheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dafang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Zhenzhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaojian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002853:Chromatography, Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D004355:Drug Stability; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012110:Reserpine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012110:Reserpine; C100104:deserpidine