title: Ultra-low flow liquid chromatography assay with ultraviolet (UV) detection for piperine quantitation in human plasma.
abstract: A robust and sensitive ultra-low flow liquid chromatography (UFLC) method that can reproducibly, at reasonable cost, detect low concentrations of piperine from human plasma is necessary. Piperine in plasma was separated and quantified by a gradient method using ultraviolet detection at a maximal absorbance wavelength of 340 nm. An aliquot was injected onto a reversed-phase column Waters SymmetryShield, 2.1 x 100 mm, 3.5 microm, C(18) column, attached to a Waters absorbosphere, 4.6 x 30 mm, C(18) guard column and eluted with a mobile phase containing a mixture of acetonitrile/water/acetic acid (25:74.9:0.1, v/v/v) on line A and acetonitrile/acetic acid (99.9:0.1, v/v) on line B. The flow rate was 0.3 mL/min. The gradient method consisted of an opening condition of 20% pump B, with a linear increase to 37% pump B over 8 min, then a linear increase to 100% pump B at 11 min, 2 min at 100% pump B, and then a return to the opening condition (20% pump B) via a linear gradient over 2 min, followed by 5 min re-equilibration at opening conditions. The total run time was 20 min for each sample. All samples were processed protected from ambient light to avoid isomerization of piperine. The plasma assay was linear with R = 0.9995, with a lower limit of detection [signal-to-noise (S/N) > 5:1] of 100 pg of piperine loaded into the analytical system with acceptable accuracy and precision. Extraction recoveries of piperine from human plasma were 88% for quality control high (QCH), 93% for quality control medium (QCM), and 90% for quality control low (QCL), and the matrix effect was <12%. Piperine was quantifiable from a 50 mg oral dose given to human volunteers. A UFLC method for the rapid assay of human plasma with sensitivity to detect as low as 5 ng/mL piperine was developed. The method sensitivity equals that of liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MSMS) methods with much less cost.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. mkakaral@umich.edu
authors.forename: Madhuri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kakarala
authors.forename: Shiv Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Dubey
authors.forename: Malloree
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tarnowski
authors.forename: Connie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Samadhi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liyanage
authors.forename: Terrence
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Strawder
authors.forename: Karim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tazi
authors.forename: Ananda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sen
authors.forename: Zora
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Djuric
authors.forename: Dean E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Brenner
mesh_terms: D000470:Alkaloids / Q000097:blood*; D052117:Benzodioxoles / Q000097:blood*; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010880:Piperidines / Q000097:blood*; D053284:Polyunsaturated Alkamides / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids; D052117:Benzodioxoles; D010880:Piperidines; D053284:Polyunsaturated Alkamides; C008922:piperine
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