Determination of 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin in microdialysates from rat brain with LC-MS/MS / 浙江大学学报·医学版

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To establish a method for determination of 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38) in microdialysates from rat brain.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The concentrations of SN-38 were measured by LC-MS/MS method with Agilent Eclipse Plus C18 (2.1 mm ×100 mm, 1.8 μm) reversed phase column using acetonitrile-0.1% methanoic acid as mobile phase with gradient elution at a flow rate of 0.3 ml/min and temperature at 35 degree. Multiple reaction monitoring using the precursor to product ion combinations of m/z 393.1→349.1 was performed to detect SN-38 in microdialysates from rat brain.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Blank microdialysate had non-interference. The method was linear over the concentration range of 0.1015-1015 ng/ml (r=0.9995); and the lower limit of quantification (LOQ) was 0.1015 ng/ml. The recovery of assay for SN-38 ranged from 97.54%-100.60%. The intra- and inter-day precision and stability were both well. The concentrations of SN-38 in brain microdialysates presented pharmacokinetics process and achieved the peak after 220 min.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The fully validated LC-MS/MS analytical method has high specificity and sensibility, which can be used effectively to analyze SN-38 in microdialysates from rat brain.</p>