We aim to establish a simple and easy high-performance liquid chromatography system coupled with an ultraviolet detector suitable for simultaneous determination of 24 antiepileptic drugs in human plasma. Optimized chromatographic separation was performed on a ZORBAX Eclipse Plus-C18 (4.6 × 150 mm 2 , 3.5 μm) column with acetonitrile and 5 mM potassium dihydrogen phosphate water solution as mobile phase. Note that, 24 antiepileptic drugs were divided into three groups and eluted with different gradient procedures, respectively. The column temperature was maintained at 35°C and the detection wavelength was set at 210 nm. Plasma was processed with ethyl acetate or acetonitrile. The calibration curves of 24 antiepileptic drugs demonstrated good linearity within the test range ( r > 0.996). The intra- and inter-batch precision and accuracy were all less than 15%, while extraction recoveries were in the range of 74.57–90.89% with the relative standard deviation values less than 15%. The validated methods have been successfully applied to determination of some antiepileptic drugs in rat or patient plasma. Those results indicated that the developed methods were simple and easy, and could be suitable for the determination of 24 antiepileptic drugs in plasma just by changing the gradient elution procedures of mobile phase.
Min Xie,Jun Xu,Dan Fei,Ye-Lan Guang,Yao-Min Zhou,Fan Li,Li-Zhen Hu
An improved QuEChERS method combined with Multi-Plug Filtration Cleanup (m-PFC) clean-up procedure was developed for the simultaneous determination of 16 different sulfonamides in forage grasses using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS). The forage grass sample was extracted with 0.1 mol L−1 Na2EDTA-Mcllvaine buffer and acetonitrile solution, purified by the Navo U-QuE column tube, separated by Agilent ZORBAX Eclipse Plus C18 column, and analyzed by MRM (multiple reaction monitoring) mode and the internal standard method was utilized for quantification. The 16 different sulfonamides display good linearity within the range of 0.5–50 μg L−1 (R2 > 0.9967), the limit of detection was 0.02–0.5 μg kg−1, and the limit of quantification was 0.05–1.0 μg kg−1. Under the additive amounts of 1, 2, and 10 μg kg−1, the recoveries were in the range of 72.3–116.9%, and the relative standard deviation was between 1.4% and 10.3%. The presented method showed the advantages of simple operation, excellent selectivity and high sensitivity. It was well-suited for both qualitative and quantitative analyses of sulfonamides in forage grass. Overall, this method provided a scientific basis for risk assessment, enforcement of quality and safety standards, and detection of sulfonamide residues in forage grass for import and export.