Validation of a high-performance liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric method for the measurement of 5-chloro-2',3'-dideoxy-3' -fluorouridine (935U83) in human plasma

Journal of Chromatography. B, Biomedical Applications
J A Dunn, P M Savina

Abstract

An isocratic reversed-phase LC-MS method for measuring concentrations of 5-chloro-2',3'-dideoxy-3'-fluorouridine (935U83; I) directly and its 5'-glucuronide metabolite (5-chloro-2',3'-dideoxy-5'-O-beta-D-glucopyranuronosyl-3'-fluorour idine) indirectly in human plasma was developed, validated, and applied to a Phase I clinical study. The pyrimidine nucleoside, I, was extracted from human plasma by using anionic solid-phase extraction. The concentration of the glucuronide conjugate was determined from the difference between the molar concentration of I in a sample hydrolyzed with beta-glucuronidase and the nonhydrolyzed sample. Recovery of I from human plasma averaged 90%. The bias of the assay for I ranged from -5.5 to 7.1% during the validation and from -6.0 to 1.4% during application of the assay to the Phase I single-dose escalation study. The intra- and inter-day precision was less than 8% for I and its glucuronide conjugate. The lower and upper limits of quantitation for a 50-microliters sample were 4 ng/ml and 3000 ng/ml, respectively. No significant endogenous interferences were noted in human plasma obtained from drug-free volunteers nor from predose samples of HIV-infected patients.

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