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- Title
Highly Sensitive LC-MS-MS Method for the Determination of Tacrine in Rat Plasma: Application to Pharmacokinetic Studies in Rats.
- Authors
Sulochana, Suresh Ponnayyan; Ravichandiran, Vishnuvardh; Mullangi, Ramesh; Sukumaran, Sathesh Kumar
- Abstract
A rapid and highly sensitive assay method has been developed and validated for the estimation of tacrine in rat plasma using liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization in the positive-ion mode. The assay procedure involves a simple liquid-liquid extraction of tacrine and phenacetin (internal standard, IS) from rat plasma using ethyl acetate. Chromatographic separation was achieved with 0.2% formic acid : acetonitrile (30 : 70, v/v) at a flow rate of 0.50 mL/min on an Atlantis dC18 column with a total run time of 3.0 min. The MS-MS ion transitions monitored were 199.10→171.20 for tacrine and 180.10→110.10 for IS. Method validation was performed as per United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) guidelines and the results met the acceptance criteria. The lower limit of quantification achieved was 0.008 ng/mL and linearity was observed from 0.008 to 53.4 ng/mL. The intra- and inter-day precision was in the range of 2.76-12.5 and 5.15-12.8%, respectively. This novel method has been applied to a pharmacokinetic study in rats.
- Subjects
TACRINE; PHARMACOKINETICS; LABORATORY rats; MASS spectrometry; PHENACETIN; ACETONITRILE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC analysis
- Publication
Journal of Chromatographic Science, 2016, Vol 54, Issue 3, p397
- ISSN
0021-9665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/chromsci/bmv155