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Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)
 
 
 
 
 

Efficient extraction of basic, neutral, and weakly acidic drugs from plasma for analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

We describe a method for efficiently extracting basic, neutral, and weakly acidic drugs from plasma for toxicological analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The 2-mL plasma sample is diluted with an equal volume of saturated NaCl containing triethylamine, 10 mmol/L, and then extracted twice with 4 mL of an equivolume solution of dichloromethane/acetone. The organic (top) phases are combined, then mixed with 1 mL of water, 200 mg of NaHCO3, and 100 microliters of acetic anhydride. This mixture is then heated at 75 degrees C until the solvents have boiled off and aqueous acetylation is complete (less than 30 min). After addition of 1 mL of water and 2 g of NaCl, the sample is extracted twice with 2 mL of dichloromethane/acetone (2/1 by vol). The combined extracts are dried and then subjected to thin-layer chromatography on a blank Toxi-Lab Toxi-A chromatogram with 1-chlorobutane as the developing solvent (about 6 min). After the lipids have migrated with the mobile phase, the drugs are eluted from the origin with acetone/triethylamine (29/1 by vol), evaporated, and reconstituted in injection solvent. With this procedure drugs are recovered relatively quickly (less than 2 h) and the GC/MS total ion chromatograms are very clean. Studies with 13 basic, neutral, and weakly acidic drugs showed that all except theophylline were extracted with recoveries of at least 75%.[1]

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