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Quantification of 4 antidepressants and a metabolite by LC-MS for therapeutic drug monitoring

Published inJournal of chromatography. B, vol. 879, p. 1544-1550
Publication date2011
Abstract

A liquid chromatography method coupled to mass spectrometry was developed for the quantification of bupropion, its metabolite hydroxy-bupropion, moclobemide, reboxetine and trazodone in human plasma. The validation of the analytical procedure was assessed according to Société Française des Sciences et Techniques Pharmaceutiques and the latest Food and Drug Administration guidelines. The sample preparation was performed with 0.5mL of plasma extracted on a cation-exchange solid phase 96-well plate. The separation was achieved in 14min on a C18 XBridge column (2.1mm×100mm, 3.5μm) using a 50mM ammonium acetate pH 9/acetonitrile mobile phase in gradient mode. The compounds of interest were analysed in the single ion monitoring mode on a single quadrupole mass spectrometer working in positive electrospray ionisation mode. Two ions were selected per molecule to increase the number of identification points and to avoid as much as possible any false positives. Since selectivity is always a critical point for routine therapeutic drug monitoring, more than sixty common comedications for the psychiatric population were tested. For each analyte, the analytical procedure was validated to cover the common range of concentrations measured in plasma samples: 1-400ng/mL for reboxetine and bupropion, 2-2000ng/mL for hydroxy-bupropion, moclobemide, and trazodone. For all investigated compounds, reliable performance in terms of accuracy, precision, trueness, recovery, selectivity and stability was obtained. One year after its implementation in a routine process, this method demonstrated a high robustness with accurate values over the wide concentration range commonly observed among a psychiatric population.

Keywords
  • Method development
  • Therapeutic drug monitoring
  • Solid phase extraction
  • LC–MS
  • Antidepressant
Citation (ISO format)
CHOONG, Eva et al. Quantification of 4 antidepressants and a metabolite by LC-MS for therapeutic drug monitoring. In: Journal of chromatography. B, 2011, vol. 879, p. 1544–1550. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2011.03.049
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