Artigo Revisado por pares

Direct injection HPLC method for the determination of selected benzodiazepines in plasma using a Hisep column

2003; Elsevier BV; Volume: 33; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0731-7085(03)00426-6

ISSN

1873-264X

Autores

Constantinos Pistos, James T. Stewart,

Tópico(s)

Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection

Resumo

A direct plasma injection HPLC method has been developed for the determination of selected benzodiazepines (nitrazepam, clobazam, oxazepam, lorazepam). The method uses an analytical hydrophobic shielded phase (Hisep) column equipped with a Hisep guard column, are easy to perform and requires 20 ul of a filtered plasma sample. The chromatographic run time is less than 15 min using a mobile phase of 15:85 v/v acetonitrile–0.18 M ammonium acetate pH 2.5. The method is good for 175 injections before replacement of the guard column. The method was linear in the range 0.5–18 ug ml−1 (r>0.99, n=6) for the analytes with R.S.D. less than 10.82%. Interday and intraday variability were found to be less than 14%. The limits of detection and quantitation were 0.16 (s/n>3) and 0.5 ug ml−1 (s/n>10), respectively, for each of the four benzodiazepines.

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