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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 274-282Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ja00385d
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- Special Research Fund of Ghent University (BOF-UGent)
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The development of suitable analytical methods for drug ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) studies is of great importance. The currently routinely applied detection techniques usually demonstrate a structure-dependent analytical response (MS-based method) or require the synthesis of a radiolabelled version of the parent drug (radiodetection) for accurate quantification. Inductively coupled plasma-(tandem) mass spectrometry (ICP-MS(/MS)) offers a promising alternative to radiolabelling followed by radiodetection due to the structure-independent nature of its analytical response. Within the context of this study, an accurate, simple and sensitive HPLC-ICP-MS/MS method for the quantitative metabolite profiling of diclofenac in human plasma based on the pre-column derivatization of the carboxylic and phenolic -OH groups present in the parent drug and its major metabolite, 4'-hydroxy-diclofenac, was developed and validated. A cost-effective and commercially available derivatization reagent, p-bromophenacyl bromide (p-BPB), was applied for the introduction of Br into the drug molecule and its major metabolite, enabling the element-selective detection and quantification based on the Br-signal. The presence of Cl in both diclofenac and 4'-hydroxy-diclofenac allowed an additional validation via simultaneous monitoring of the Cl-signal by using a state-of-art ICP-MS/MS instrument equipped with a collision/reaction cell. The reaction conditions were successfully optimized to achieve a quantitative formation of the corresponding derivatization products, while the baseline separation of the target compounds in a typical biological matrix (i.e. human plasma) was achieved using gradient reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). A fit-for-purpose accuracy (recovery between 85-115%) and precision (repeatability <= 7.2% RSD) were achieved. The limits of quantification (LOQ) are approximate to 50 mu g L-1 for Br and approximate to 80 mu g L-1 for Cl, corresponding to approximate to 0.2 mg L-1 and approximate to 0.4 mg L-1 of diclofenac, respectively.
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