Development and validation of simple step protein precipitation UHPLC-MS/MS methods for quantitation of temozolomide in patient plasma samples

Publication date: Available online 8 September 2018Source: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical AnalysisAuthor(s): Mohamed A. El Mubarak, Evgenios K. Stylos, Maria V. Chatziathanasiadou, Charikleia Danika, G.A. Alexiou, P. Tsekeris, Alexander Renziehausen, Tim Crook, Nelofer Syed, Gregory B. Sivolapenko, Andreas G. TzakosAbstractTemozolomide (TEMODAL™) (TMZ) is an antineoplastic agent that is primarily used for the treatment of glioblastoma and anaplastic gliomas, two aggressive forms of brain cancer. Due to the poor prognosis of brain tumour patients, there is an increasing body of research into improving the stability and delivery of TMZ past the blood brain barrier using carrier molecules. These require accurate determination of TMZ levels for biodistribution and pharmacokinetic evaluation. Unfortunately, current methodologies for the determination of TMZ in human plasma suffer from low reproducibility, recovery, sensitivity or cost ineffective procedures associated with extensive sample cleaning. To surpass these disadvantages, we developed two bioanalytical methods with high sensitivity and excellent recovery for the determination of TMZ in human plasma at minimum cost. Liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was used and both methods were validated under US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) guidelines. The two methods had minor differences in the sample pre-treatment and each method was devel...
Source: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research