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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 1221-1227Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2006.10.012
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homeopathy; homeopathic preparations; NSAIDs; HPLC-UV; HPLC-ESI-MS
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A simple high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with both ultraviolet (UV) and electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) detection has been developed for the determination of seven pharmaceuticals in counterfeit homeopathic preparations. Naproxen, Ketoprofen, Ibuprofen, Diclofenac. Piroxicam, Nimesulide and Paracetamol were separated by reversed phase chromatography with acetonitrile-water (0.1% acetic acid) mobile phase, and detected by UV at 245 nm and by ESI-MS in negative ionisation mode with the exception of Paracetamol which was detected in positive ionisation mode. Benzoic acid was used as internal standard (IS). This method was successfully applied to the analysis of homeopathic preparations like mother tinctures, solutions, tablets, granules, creams, and suppositories. Linearity was studied with UV detection in the 50-400 mu g mL(-1) range and with ESI-MS in the 0.1-50 mu g mL(-1) range. Good correlation coefficients were found in both UV and ESI-MS. Detection limits ranged from 0.18 to 41.5 ng in UV and from 0.035 to 1.00 ng in ESI-MS. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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