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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 853, Issue 1-2, Pages 265-274Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2007.03.025
Keywords
high-performance liquid chromatography; fluorescence detection; mass spectrometry; galantamine; metabolites
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Galantamine, an alkaloid isolated from the bulbs and flowers of Caucasian snowdrop (Galanthus woronowii, Amaryllidaceac) and related species, is employed in human medicine for the treatment of various neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases. After the administration, the products of oxidative biotransformation (O-desmethyl-galantamine, N-desmethyl-galantamine, galantamine-N-oxide) and chiral conversion (epigalantamine) are formed in various concentrations from parent compound. For the identification and determination of galantamine and its phase I metabolites in blood plasma and tissues, a new bioanalytical method based on a reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with UV photodiode-array, fluorescence and mass spectrometric detection was developed, validated and applied to pharmacokinetic and biotransformation studies. Sample preparation included a homogenization of the rat tissues (liver, brain, hypophysis) in a phosphate buffer 0.05 mol/L pH 7.4. Plasma samples and tissue homogenates were purified using a mixed-mode solid-phase extraction (Waters Oasis MCX cartridges). Galantamine, its above-mentioned metabolites and the internal standard codeine were separated on a Discovery HS F5 column (Supelco, 150 mm x 4.6 mm I.D., 5 mu m) at flow rate of 1 mL/min using a linear gradient elution. UV photodiode-array and mass spectrometric detection were employed for the identification of individual galantamine metabolites in various biomatrices, the fluorescence detection (lambda(excit) = 280 nm/ lambda(cmiss) = 310 nm ) was chosen for the quantification of galantamine and its metabolites. The developed method was applicable in liver tissue in the range from 0.50 to 63.47 nmol/g of galantamine, from 0.32 to 41.42 nmol/g of O-desmethyl-galantamine, from 0.54 to 69.40 nmol/g of N-desmethyl-galantamine and from 0.70 to 89.03 nmol/g of epigalantamine. Limit of detection was found to be 0.04 nmol/g for galantamine, 0. 19 nmol/g for O-desmethyl-galantamine, and 0.07 nmol/g for N-desmethyl-galantamine and epigalantamine. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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