title: Analyses of anticancer drugs by capillary electrophoresis: a review.
abstract: Capillary electrophoresis is a fast, inexpensive and low detection limit technique for the analysis of anticancer drugs. It has been used to analyze various anticancer drugs in biological samples, pharmaceutical preparations and environmental matrices. It has also been used to detect various cancer biomarkers in cancer patients. The present article describes the state-of-the art of capillary electrophoresis for the analyses of anticancer drugs. Various drugs discussed belong to several groups such as antimitotic agents, nucleoside analogs, antibiotics, topoisomerase inhibitors and DNA intercalating agents. In addition, efforts have also been made to discuss sample preparation, applications of capillary electrophoresis in genomic research, optimization and future perspectives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi 110025, India. drimran_ali@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Imran
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Ashanul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haque
authors.forename: Waseem A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Wani
authors.forename: Kishwar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saleem
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al Za'abi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use / Q000652:urine; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents
keywords: anticancer drugs; biological samples; capillary electrophoresis; future perspectives