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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 39, Issue 1-2, Pages 268-274Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2005.02.024
Keywords
lorazepam; electrospray tandem mass spectrometry; pharmacokinetics
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A fast and sensitive method of coupled high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry for the assay of lorazepam in human plasma was developed. Plasma samples were simply treated with acetonitrile to precipitate and remove proteins and the isolated supernatants were directly injected into the HPLC/MS/MS system. Chromatographic separation was performed on a Zorbax C-18 (100 x 2:1 mm I.D.) column with a 65:35 (v/v) mixed solution of acetonitrile and 10 mM aqueous formic acid being used as mobile phase. With diazepam as an internal standard, quantification was performed by selected reaction ion monitoring of the transitions of m/z 321 -> m/z 275 for lorazepam and m/z 285 -> m/z 193 for the internal standard. The assay was validated in the concentration range of 0.71-71.3 ng/ml in human plasma. A detection limit of 0.10 ng/ml for lorazepam was achieved, and inter- and intra-run precisions of better than 4.4% (R.S.D.) were observed. The developed method has been successfully applied for pharmacokinetic study of the drug in man. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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