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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
Volume 35, Issue 20, Pages 2773-2780Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201200263
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Alkaloids; Capillary electrophoresis coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry; Plasma; Solid-phase extraction; Urine
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A novel capillary zone electrophoresis separation coupled to electro spray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry method was developed for the simultaneous analysis of six toxic alkaloids: brucine, strychnine, atropine sulfate, anisodamine hydrobromide, scopolamine hydrobromide and anisodine hydrobromide in human plasma and urine. To obtain optimal sensitivity, a solid-phase extraction method using Oasis MCX cartridges (1 mL, 30 mg; Waters, USA) for the pretreatment of samples was used. All compounds were separated by capillary zone electrophoresis at 25 kV within 12 min in an uncoated fused-silica capillary of 75 mu m id x 100 cm and were detected by time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This method was validated with regard to precision, accuracy, sensitivity, linear range, limit of detection (LOD), and limit of quantification (LOQ). In the plasma and urine samples, the linear calibration curves were obtained over the range of 0.50100 ng/mL. The LOD and LOQ were 0.20.5 ng/mL and 0.51.0 ng/mL, respectively. The intra- and interday precision was better than 12% and 13%, respectively. Electrophoretic peaks could be identified by mass analysis.
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