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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 784, Issue 1, Pages 17-24Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-0232(02)00656-6
Keywords
cefaclor
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A sensitive and specific liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric method is described for the determination of cefaclor in human plasma. The plasma samples were treated by two sample preparation procedures, i.e. protein precipitation (PPT) and solid-phase extraction (SPE). The pretreated samples were analyzed on a C-18 HPLC column interfaced with a triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer. Positive electrospray ionization (ESI) was employed as the ionization source. The analyte and internal standard ampicillin (for PPT) or cefetamet (for SPE) were detected by use of selected reaction monitoring (SRM) mode. The lower limit of quantitation obtained as a result of the PPT procedure was 100 ng/ml. The intra- and inter-run precision, calculated from quality control (QC) samples was less than 12% for cefaclor. The accuracy as determined from QC samples was within +/-3% for the analyte. The SPE procedure could provide the lower limit of quantitation of 2 ng/ml. The precision and accuracy were measured to be below 7.1% and between -3.6% and 1.1%, respectively, for all QC samples. The method was applied for the evaluation of the pharmacokinetic profiles of cefaclor sustained-release formulation. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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