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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 50, Issue 5, Pages 966-976Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2009.06.050
Keywords
Propranolol; 4-Hydroxy propranolol; beta-Adrenoreceptor antagonist; Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry; Solid phase extraction
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A very sensitive, reliable, reproducible and highly selective assay for the simultaneous determination of free and total (conjugated and unconjugated) propranolol and its equipotent hydroxyl metabolite, 4-hydroxy propranolol, in human plasma was developed and validated. The analytes were simultaneously extracted from 0.300 mL of human plasma using solid phase extraction and detected in positive ion mode by tandem mass spectrometry with a turbo ionspray interface. Deuterium-labeled propranolol and 4-hydroxy propranolol, propranolol-d7 and 4-hydroxy propranolol-d7, were used as internal standards. The method has a lower limit of quantitation (LOQ) of 0.20 ng/mL for both analytes with the limits of detection (LOD) 50 and 100 pg/mL for propranolol and 4-hydroxy propranolol, respectively, based on a signal-to-noise ratio of 5. The assay was linear over a range 0.20-135.00 ng/mL for free propranolol and 0.20-25.00 ng/mL for free 4-hydroxy propranolol and linear over range 1.00-500.00 ng/mL for total propranolol and 1.00-360.00 ng/mL for total 4-hydroxy propranolol, with coefficient of determination greater than 0.99 for both analytes. The extraction recoveries were >96 and >64% on an average for propranolol and 4-hydroxy propranolol, respectively. The analytes were found stable in human plasma through five freeze (-15 degrees C)-thaw (room temperature) cycles and under storage on bench-top for at least 6.5 h, and also in mobile phase at 10 degrees C for at least 48 h. The method has shown tremendous reproducibility, with intra- and inter-day precision <11.3% (RSD), and intra- and inter-day accuracy <11% of nominal values, for both analytes, and has proved to be highly reliable for the analysis of clinical samples. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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