Ultra-fast LC-MS/MS in therapeutic drug monitoring: Quantification of clozapine and norclozapine in human plasma

作者：Couchman Lewis^*; Fisher Danielle S; Subramaniam Krithika; Handley Simon A; Boughtflower Robert J; Benton Christopher M; Flanagan Robert J

来源：Drug Testing and Analysis, 2018, 10(2): 323-329.

DOI：10.1002/dta.2223

• clozapine
• high-throughput
• LC-MS
• MS
• liquid chromatography
• mass spectrometry
• TDM

A novel approach to high-throughput, targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis has been developed. A single chromatographic system can be used for the analysis of a range of 20 drugs and metabolites with a total analysis time of 36s (one 96-well plate of prepared samples per hour). To demonstrate the applicability of this approach to quantitative analysis, a method has been validated for the therapeutic drug monitoring of clozapine and norclozapine following automated extraction from human plasma. Chromatographic retention times were 11.4 and 12.4s for norclozapine and clozapine, respectively (for both analytes the chromatographic peak width was less than 1s). Comparison with a conventional LC-MS/MS method (5 min analysis time) showed excellent agreement. This new approach offers analysis times more akin to flow-injection analysis, but is likely to be more widely applicable because of chromatographic resolution from residual matrix components and isobaric interferences.

• 出版日期2018-2