Determination of Diclofenac Potassium in Human Plasma by LC-MS |
T. BHANU PRAKSAH, K. VIJAYA SRI and S. RAMA KRISHNA* |
Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mohuda-760 002, India E-mail: vijayasree_2002@yahoo.co.in |
Abstract A rapid and sensitive liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
(LC-MS) method has been developed and validated for quantification
of diclofenac potassium in human plasma. The analyte was extracted
from human plasma by simple precipitation technique. Bupropion was
used as the internal standard. A kromasil C18 column provided chromatographic
separation of the analyte which was followed by detection with
mass spectrometry. The mass transition ion-pair was followed as m/z
296.10 and 214.10 for diclofenac 240.1 and 184.10 m/z for bupropion.
The method involves precipitation of diclofenac from plasma, simple
isocratic chromatography conditions with mobile phase acetonitrile:
water and mass spectrometric detection that enables detection at nanogram
levels. The retention times were 1.58 and 1.21 min for diclofenac
and bupropion, respectively. The proposed method has been validated
with linear range of 150-3181 ng mL for diclofenac. The precision and
accuracy values are within ± 10 %. The overall recovery of diclofenac
was 41.9 %. |
Keywords Diclofenac, LC-MS, Human plasma. |
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