A facile method for quantifying the concentration of the powerful and widely available hallucinogen salvinorin A (a selective kappa opioid agonist) from non-human primate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and human plasma has been developed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in positive electrospray ionization (ESI) mode. With CSF solid phase extraction can be avoided compl...

The goal of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of simulated robustness testing using commercial modelling software (DryLab) and state-of-the-art stationary phases. For this purpose, a mixture of amlodipine and its seven related impurities was analyzed on short narrow bore columns (50×2.1mm, packed with sub-2μm particles) providing short analysis times. The performance of commercial modelli...

Amrinone (AMR), a bipyridine derivative, is receiving increasing use in postoperative cardiac patients as an inotrope and vasodilator. The hemodynamic response to amrinone in adults is linearly related to AMR concentrations, warranting therapeutic drug monitoring. We report a rapid microsample HPLC method for monitoring AMR and its principal metabolites, N-acetyl (N-ac) and N-glycolyl (N-gly) A...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com bioactive, and their use could be diverted towards either in the animal feed production, or to the recovery of purified molecules for nutraceutical purposes. Since they occur in complex mixture for their analyses a very advanced analytical liquid chromatography technique was employed. Such a technique is called ccomprehensive two-dimensional liquid ...

A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method is described for the simultaneous determination of vitamins A, D2, D3, E and K1, retinyl acetate, retinyl palmitate, tocopherol acetate, ergosterol and 7-dehydrocholesterol in milk and butter. Narrow-bore columns are recommended because this alternative provides a good separation and efficiency, plus greater economy and sensitivity...

The retention time of 22 barbituric acid derivatives was measured on a narrow-bore porous graphitized carbon (PGC) column using water-dioxane mixtures as mobile phases. The capacity factor (k), theoretical plate number (N), and asymmetry factor (AF) were calculated for each solute in each mobile phase. The relationships between chromatographic characteristics and physicochemical parameters of s...

The retention time of 23 barbituric acid derivatives was determined on an narrow-bore porous graphitized carbon (PGC) column employing water-dioxane mixtures as mobile phases. The retention factor (k), theoretical plate number (N), and asymmetry factor (AF) were computed for each analyte in each mobile phase. Quantitative structure-retention relationship (QSRR) calculations using stepwise regre...

Possibilities and limitations of a bench top mass spectrometric detector (MSD) in selective ion monitoring mode (SIM) and electron capture detector (ECD) in fast gas chromatography (GC) with narrow bore columns of samples with complex matrices at ultra trace levels of pesticide residues were studied and compared.. Various injection systems were searched (splitless, on-column, programmable tempe...