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Drug Monitoring and Toxicology |
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Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques (ISPB), Département de Pharmacie Clinique, de Pharmacocinétique et d'Evaluation du Médicament, 8 ave. Rockefeller, 69373 Lyon Cedex 08, France.
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Hôpital Cardiovasculaire et Pneumologique, Service
Pharmaceutique, B.P. Lyon Montchat, 69394 Lyon Cedex 03, France.
a Author for correspondence. Fax 04.78.77.71.58.
We developed an isocratic, selective, and very sensitive HPLC method for the determination of ketamine and its two main metabolites in plasma. The compounds were extracted from plasma by a liquidliquid extraction with a dichloromethane:ethyl acetate mixture followed by an acidic back-extraction. Separation was achieved on a new stationary phase, Purospher RP-18 end-capped, with a mobile phase containing acetonitrile:0.03 mol/L phosphate buffer (23:77 by vol) adjusted to pH 7.2. Because of the high column efficiency and the significant improvement of peak symmetry, the quantification limit could be down to 5 µg/L for ketamine and norketamine (NK). The intraday and interday CVs ranged from 1.7% to 5.8% and 3.1% to 10.2% for all compounds respectively. The method is sensitive enough for monitoring ketamine, NK, and dehydroketamine in plasma during pharmacokinetic studies after an intravenous bolus of a low dose of ketamine.
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