Determination of xanthatin by ultra high performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry: Application to pharmacokinetic study of xanthatin in rat plasma

作者:Yan, Cuiping; Li, Huan; Wu, Yu; Xie, Donghao; Weng, Zebin; Cai, Baochang; Liu, Xiao; Li, Weidong*; Chen, Zhipeng
来源:Journal of Chromatography B-Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences, 2014, 947: 57-61.
DOI:10.1016/j.jchromb.2013.12.006

摘要

A sensitive, specific and rapid ultra high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method has been established to study pharmacokinetic properties of xanthatin. Xanthatin, a compound which belongs to sesquiterpene lactone group, was determined in rat plasma with psoralen as internal standard. Chromatographic separation was performed on an Agilent Zorbax Eclipse plus C-18 column (50 mm x 2.1 mm, 3.5 mu m) with gradient elution system at a flow rate of 0.3 mL/min. The mobile phase was composed of methanol and 0.1% formic acid water solution. Analysis was performed under a triple-quadruple tandem mass-spectrometer with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source via the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode to determine xanthatin at [M+H](+) m/z 247.3 -> m/z 205.2 and that of IS at [M+H](+) m/z 187.1 -> m/z 143.0 within 5 min. The assay method exhibited good separation of xanthatin from the interference of endogenous substances. The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) was 1 ng/mL, with a good linearity within the concentration range of 1-5000 ng/mL(r = 0.9990). Intra-day and inter-day precision RSD was less than 9.27%; intra-day and inter-day accuracy was 88.48% and 102.25% respectively. The extraction recoveries of xanthatin range from 82.12% to 89.55%, and the extraction RSD was less than 9.01%. The established LC-ESI-MS/MS method is rapid and sensitive, which has been successfully applied to quantify xanthatin in rat plasma for the first time.

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