Rodríguez Flores J, Peñalvo GC, Mansilla AE, Gómez MJR. Capillary electrophoretic determination of methotrexate, leucovorin and folic acid in human urine.
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2005;
819:141-7. [PMID:
15797531 DOI:
10.1016/j.jchromb.2005.01.039]
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Abstract
A simple, rapid and sensitive procedure using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) to measure methotrexate, folinic acid and folic acid in human urine has been developed and validated. Optimum separation of methotrexate, folinic acid and folic acid was obtained on a 60 cm x 75 microm capillary using a 15 mM phosphate buffer solution (pH 12.0), temperature and voltage 20 degrees C and 25 kV, respectively and hydrodynamic injection. Under these conditions the analysis takes approximately 9.0 min. Good results were obtained for different aspects including stability of the solutions, linearity, accuracy and precision. Before CZE determination, the urine samples were purified and enriched by means of a solid phase extraction step with a preconditioned C(18) cartridge and eluting the compound with a mixture 1:1 of methanol:water. A linear response over the urine concentration range 1.0-6.0 mgL(-1) for MTX and 0.5-6.0 mgL(-1) for folinic acid and folic acid was observed. Detection limits for the three compound in urine were 0.35 mgL(-1). CZE was shown to be a good method with regard to simplicity, satisfactory precision, and sensitivity.
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