Enantioselective determination of cetirizine in human plasma by normal-phase liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-tandem mass spectrometry
- Authors
- Kang, Seung Woo; Jang, Hae Jong; Moore, Victor S.; Park, Ji-Young; Kim, Kyoung-Ah; Youm, Jeong-Rok; Han, Sang Beom
- Issue Date
- 15-12월-2010
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Levocetirizine; Enantioselective; Normal-phase liquid chromatography; Tandem mass spectrometry; Pharmacokinetic study
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES, v.878, no.32, pp.3351 - 3357
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
- Volume
- 878
- Number
- 32
- Start Page
- 3351
- End Page
- 3357
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/115118
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jchromb.2010.10.019
- ISSN
- 1570-0232
- Abstract
- A highly sensitive and enantioselective method has been developed and validated for the determination of levocetirizine [(R)-cetirizine] in human plasma by normal-phase liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry with an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) interface in the positive ion mode. Enantioselective separation was achieved on a CHIRALPAK AD-H column using an isocratic mobile phase consisting of a mixture of n-hexane, ethyl alcohol, diethylamine, and acetic acid (60:40:0.1:0.1, v/v/v/v). Levocetirizine-D-8 was used as an internal standard (IS). Levocetirizine and the IS were detected by multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM). Mass transitions of analyte and IS were rn/z 389.2 -> 201.1 and 397.2 -> 201.1, respectively. Under optimized analytical conditions, a baseline separation of two enantiomers and IS was obtained in less than 11 min. Samples were prepared by a simple two-step extraction by protein precipitation using acetonitrile followed by liquid-liquid extraction with a n-hexane-dichloromethane mixture (50:50, v/v). The standard curve for levocetirizine was linear (r(2) > 0.995) in the concentration range 0.5-300 ng/mL. Recovery was between 97.0 and 102.2% at low, medium, and high concentration. The limit of quantification (LOQ) was 0.5 ng/ml.. Other method validation parameters, such as precision, accuracy, and stability, were very satisfactory. Finally, the proposed method was successfully applied to the study of enantioselective oral pharmacokinetics of levocetirizine in healthy Korean volunteers. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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