Fluorescence determination of metoprolol in human plasma by trilinear decomposition-based calibration techniques

In this study a new spectrofluorimetric method for the direct determination of metoprolol in human plasma is presented and discussed. It is based on the use of fluorescence excitation–emission matrices (EEMs) and second-order calibration performed with parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) or alternating trilinear decomposition (ATLD). This methodology enables accurate and reliable discrimination of the analyte signal, even in the presence of unknown and uncalibrated fluorescent component(s), which is often referred to as the second-order advantage. No separation or sample pretreatment steps were required. Satisfactory results were obtained. Metoprolol recoveries in plasma were determined as 87±2% and 90±4% with PARAFAC and ATLD, respectively. All RSD values of intra- and interday assays were below 5%. Figure A three-dimensional plot of EEMs for a plasma sample and metoprolol solution     

三维荧光二阶校正法用于尿液样和血浆样中左旋多巴的定量测定

本文采用激发发射荧光光谱分别与化学计量学中平行因子分析(PARAFAC)和交替三线性分解(ATLD)二阶校正法相结合,对尿液样和血浆样中左旋多巴含量进行定量测定。实验不需对尿液和血浆预测样进行萃取等分离预处理。在尿液样中,当组分数取2时,用PARAFAC算法和ATLD算法获得的平均回收率分别为(98.9±2.3)%和(99.6±2.8)%。在血浆样中,当组分数取3时,PARAFAC算法和ATLD算法获得的平均回收率分别为(103.1±3.7)%和(99.2±4.2)%。研究结果表明,该法能够解决尿液样和血浆样中左旋多巴因尿液和血浆内源物质与待分析物光谱重叠所引起的难分辨的问题,可用于未知干扰共存下左旋多巴含量的直接快速定量测定。     

三维荧光光谱结合二阶校正算法测定人体血浆和厚朴药材中的厚朴酚及和厚朴酚

利用三维荧光光谱与化学计量学二阶校正算法相结合, 直接测定人体血浆中和厚朴药材中的厚朴酚及和厚朴酚. 采用平行因子分析(PARAFAC)算法解析所得两种物质的回收率分别为(99.5±2.6)%和(90.2±1.8)%. 采用交替三线性分解(ATLD)算法解析, 当组分数N取3时, 回收率分别为(104.2±3.2)%和(98.7±4.0)%; 当N取4时, 回收率分别为(102.7±2.9)%和(99.0±4.6)%. 同时用该方法对厚朴药材中的厚朴酚及和厚朴酚进行快速定量测定, 结果令人满意. 实验结果表明, 此法可用于复杂试样中未知干扰共存下厚朴酚及和厚朴酚的同时测定.     

三维荧光光谱结合二阶校正方法测定细胞培养基中阿霉素的含量

本文采用交替三线性分解(ATLD)和交替归一加权残差三线性分解(ANWE)两种二阶校正方法结合激发发射矩阵荧光光谱对完全不经任何预处理的细胞培养基中的阿霉素进行简单、快速、直接的定量测定.当算法选取组分数为2时,解析得到细胞培养基中阿霉素的平均回收率分别为(100.5±1.8)%和(100.3±1.9)%.在细胞培养基中加入烟酰胺腺嘌呤二核苷酸(NADH)、烟酰胺腺嘌呤二核苷酸磷酸(NADPH)、黄素腺嘌呤二核苷酸(FAD)和黄素单核苷酸(FMN)四种细胞内的自发荧光物后,选取组分数为4时,解析得到细胞培养基中阿霉素的平均回收率分别为(99.1±2.9)%和(99.2±3.1)%.结果表明该分析方法能够准确、快速地直接测定细胞培养基中阿霉素的含量,并且在模拟细胞内荧光干扰环境下可定量测定阿霉素,且能获得令人满意的结果.     

三维荧光光谱结合交替三线性分解二阶校正法同时测定血浆样中三种抗癌药物含量

姜黄素、阿霉素和白藜芦醇对多种恶性肿瘤的治愈皆有一定的疗效,且其联合用药对癌细胞的抑制效果更加显著．本文采用三维激发发射荧光光谱结合基于交替三线性分解（Alternating Trilinear Decomposition,ATLD）算法的化学计量学二阶校正法,同时对血浆样中姜黄素、盐酸阿霉素和白藜芦醇的含量进行了定量分析研究．当量测体系的组分数预估计取4时,ATLD方法解析得到的血浆样中姜黄素、盐酸阿霉素和白藜芦醇的平均回收率分别为（91．4±1．1）％、（104．5±2．8）％和（103．4±4．7）％．实验结果表明,此法能够解决干扰共存和荧光光谱重叠下血浆样中姜黄素、盐酸阿霉素和白藜芦醇的直接、快速、同时定量分析的难题．     

Rapid determination of thiabendazole in orange extract using excitation-emission matrix fluorescence and second-order calibration based on alternating trilinear decomposition/alternating normalization-weighted error algorithms

A novel approach is proposed for direct quantitative analysis of thiabendazole in the orange extract by using excitation-emission matrix fluorescence coupled with second-order calibration methods based on the alternating trilinear decomposition(ATLD) and the alternating normalization-weighted error(ANWE) algorithms,respectively. The average recoveries of thiabendazole in the orange extract by using ATLD and ANWE with an estimated component number of two were 99.7 ± 3.3% and 103.5 ± 4.1%,respectively. Furthermore,the accuracy of the two algorithms was also evaluated through elliptical joint confidence region(EJCR) tests as well as figures of merit,such as sensitivity(SEN),selectivity(SEL) and limit of detection(LOD). The experimental results demonstrate that both algorithms have been satisfactorily applied to the determination of thiabendazole in orange extract,and the perform-ance of ANWE is slightly better than that of ATLD.     

三维荧光光谱二阶校正方法测定血浆样中喷昔洛韦及泛昔洛韦含量

利用三维荧光光谱即激发发射矩阵荧光光谱与化学计量学的基于平行因子分析(PARAFAC)算法的二阶校正方法相结合,尝试对血浆样中泛昔洛韦及其活性代谢物喷昔洛韦的含量进行同时定量测定.当算法选取组分数为3时,解析得到血浆样中泛昔洛韦和喷昔洛韦的平均回收率分别为(102.4±3.4)%和(105.1±2.3)%.结果表明该分析策略可准确可靠地实现血浆样中泛昔洛韦和喷昔洛韦的直接同时快速定量测定.     

Interference-free determination of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in plasma by using excitation-emission matrix fluorescence coupled with second-order calibration algorithms

Fluoroquinolones or so-called second-generation quinolones, in particular, ofloxacin (OFL), norfloxacin (NOR), and enoxacin (ENO), with therapeutic advantages possess strongly overlapped fluorescence spectra. In this paper, two strategies were proposed for simultaneous direct determination of OFL, NOR and ENO in plasma by combining fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (EEM) with second-order calibration based on the alternating trilinear decomposition algorithm (ATLD) and parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC). The results showed that both algorithms could solve the problem of serious fluorescence spectral overlapping of the sought-for analytes even in the presence of uncalibrated interferents. However, ATLD has advantages of being insensitive to overestimated component number and fast convergence. The results by using ATLD with an estimated component number of five were reasonably acceptable for clinical analysis. The average recoveries of OFL, NOR and ENO in synthetic samples were 99.7 ± 2.4, 101.5 ± 2.4 and 97.3 ± 3.8%, respectively; the average recoveries of OFL, NOR and ENO in complex plasma were 94.3 ± 2.6, 85.6 ± 3.3 and 103.3 ± 3.0%, respectively.     

Highly sensitive fluorescence quantification of irinotecan in biological fluids with the aid of second-order advantage

<正>A rapid,green and highly sensitive excitation-emission matrix(EEM) fluorescence method was proposed for analysis of irinotecan(CPT-11) in biological fluids including human plasma and urine samples of uncalibrated interferences with the aid of second-order advantage.Due to the serious spectral overlapping from biological matrices,the parallel factor analysis(PARAFAC) and the alternating normalization-weighted error(ANWE) have been recommended to perform directly calibration and overcome the problem which makes the traditional fluorospectrophotometer in trouble.Satisfactory results can be achieved.Furthermore, performance of the proposed method was evaluated based on figures of merit and some statistical parameters.The accuracy of both algorithms was validated by the elliptical joint confidence region(EJCR) test.The precision and repeatability were also investigated by the relative standard deviations(RSDs) of intra-day and inter-day.     

Second-order calibration of excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectra for determination of glutathione in human plasma

A rapid non-separative spectroflourimetric method based on the second-order calibration of the excitation-emission data matrix was proposed for the determination of glutathione (GSH) in human plasma. In the phosphate buffer solution of pH 8.0 GSH reacts with ortho-phthaldehyde (OPA) to yield a fluorescent adduct with maximum fluorescence intensity at about 420 nm. To handle the interfering effects of the OPA adducts with aminothiols other than GSH in plasma as well as intrinsic fluorescence of human plasma, parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis as an efficient three-way calibration method was employed. In addition, to model the indirect interfering effect of the plasma matrix, PARAFAC was coupled with standard addition method. The two-component PARAFAC modeling of the excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectra accurately resolved the excitation and emission spectra of GSH, plasma (or plasma constituents). The concentration-related PARAFAC score of GSH represented a linear correlation with the concentration of added GSH, similar to that is obtained in simple standard addition method. Using this standard addition curve, the GSH level in plasma was found to be 6.10 ± 1.37 μmol L⁻¹. The accuracy of the method was investigated by analysis of the plasma samples spiked with 1.0 μmol L⁻¹ of GSH and a recovery of 97.5% was obtained.     

三维荧光二阶校正方法用于体液和细胞培养基中五味子甲素含量的快速测定

采用三维激发发射荧光光谱结合自加权交替三线性分解(SWATLD)二阶校正方法, 对人体液样(血浆样及尿液样)和细胞培养基样中五味子甲素的含量进行了直接快速定量分析. 在血浆背景、尿液背景和细胞培养基背景共存下, 当分析体系的组分数分别选择2时, 用SWATLD二阶校正方法获得相应五味子甲素的平均回收率分别为(100.4±1.6)%, (100.5±6.3)%和(103.6±4.5)%. 实验结果表明, 此方法不仅能够较好地解决这些复杂分析体系因背景内源荧光性物质与待分析物光谱严重重叠所引起的难分辨的问题, 还可以用于直接快速准确定量分析.     

Direct determination of reserpine in urine using excitation-emission fluorescence combined with three-way chemometric calibration methodologies

The concentration of reserpine in urine was directly and quantitatively measured by using the excitation-emission fluorescence (EEM) combined with three-way calibration methodologies. Two calibration methods are based on the alternating trilinear decomposition (ATLD) and the self-weighted alternating trilinear decomposition (SWATLD) algorithms, respectively. These chemometric methodologies have the second-order advantage, which is the ability to get accurate concentration estimates of interested analyte(s) even in the presence of uncalibrated interferences. The satisfactory results on spiked urine samples are obtained, when the component number was chosen to 3 (N = 3) for both the methods. This experiment is easily carried out without time-consuming and complicated pretreatment. It has proved that the three-way calibration methodologies based on ATLD and SWATLD can be feasible to directly quantify the medical content of reserpine in urine. __________ Translated from Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, 2007, 28 (5): 827–830 [译自: 高等学校化学学报]     

Determination of atenolol in human urine by emission-excitation fluorescence matrices and unfolded partial least-squares with residual bilinearization

A second-order multivariate calibration method based on a combination of unfolded partial least-squares (U-PLS) with residual bilinearization (RBL) has been applied to second-order data obtained from excitation-emission fluorescence matrices for determining atenolol in human urine, even in the presence of background interactions and fluorescence inner filter effects, which are both sample dependent. Atenolol is a cardioselective beta-blocker, which is considered a doping agent in shoot practice, so that its determination in urine can be required for monitoring the drug. Loss of trilinearity due to analyte-background interactions which may vary between samples, as well as inner filter effects, precludes the use of methods like parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) that cannot handle trilinearity deviations, and justifies the employment of U-PLS. Successful analysis required to include the background in the calibration set. Unexpected components appear in new urine samples, different from those used in calibration set, requiring the second-order advantage which is obtained from a separate procedure known as residual bilinearization (RBL). Satisfactory results were obtained for artificially spiked urines, and also for real urine samples. They were statistically compared with those obtained applying a reference method based on high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).     

三维荧光光谱结合二阶校正法测定保健品中的褪黑素

采用三维荧光光谱结合基于交替三线性分解算法(ATLD)的二阶校正方法测定了2种保健品中褪黑素的含量. 当组分数取2时, 测得美益天褪黑素维生素B6胶囊(MYT)和纽斯葆牌褪黑素片(NSB)中褪黑素的含量分别为(3.074±0.019) mg/capsule和(1.649±0.059) mg/tablet, 平均加标回收率分别为(97.9±4.0)%和(103.4±2.7)%, 检出限为1.4 ng/mL. 结果表明, 该方法准确可靠. 该方法具有"二阶优势", 即使样品中存在干扰, 仍可获得较好的结果, 且灵敏度较高. 采用高效液相色谱(HPLC)法对该方法进行了验证, 用t-test对2种方法获得的结果进行比较发现, 2种方法的结果之间无显著性差异, 具有良好的一致性, 但本文方法更环保、 简单. 因此, 三维荧光光谱结合二阶校正方法可作为测定褪黑素含量的新方法, 用于对含褪黑素的保健类产品进行质量监控.     

The maintenance of the second-order advantage: second-order calibration of excitation-emission matrix fluorescence for quantitative analysis of herbicide napropamide in various environmental samples

A rapid non-separative spectrofluorometric method based on the second-order calibration of excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence was proposed for the determination of napropamide (NAP) in soil, river sediment, and wastewater as well as river water samples. With 0.10 mol L⁻¹ sodium citrate-hydrochloric acid (HCl) buffer solution of pH 2.2, the system of NAP has a large increase in fluorescence intensity. To handle the intrinsic fluorescence interferences of environmental samples, the alternating penalty trilinear decomposition (APTLD) algorithm as an efficient second-order calibration method was employed. Satisfactory results have been achieved for NAP in complex environmental samples. The limit of detection obtained for NAP in soil, river sediment, wastewater and river water samples were 0.80, 0.24, 0.12, 0.071 ng mL⁻¹, respectively. Furthermore, in order to fully investigate the performance of second-order calibration method, we test the second-order calibration method using different calibration approaches including the single matrix model, the intra-day various matrices model and the global model based on the APTLD algorithm with nature environmental datasets. The results showed the second-order calibration methods also enable one or more analyte(s) of interest to be determined simultaneously in the samples with various types of matrices. The maintenance of second-order advantage has been demonstrated in simultaneous determinations of the analyte of interests in the environmental samples of various matrices.     

荧光动力学二阶校正法定量分析人血浆样中去甲肾上腺素

提出了荧光动力学结合二阶校正算法实现人血浆样中去甲肾上腺素的间接定量测定新方法. 去甲肾上腺素本身荧光较弱, 在碱性溶液中可以被氧化生成强荧光化合物. 利用这一特性, 在pH值为9.06的硼酸缓冲液作用下采用铁氰化钾为氧化剂、抗坏血酸为抗氧化剂研究这一氧化反应过程. 设定激发波长为390 nm, 在发射波长为439～550 nm的范围内测定一段时间内连续时间点的该动力学反应中间物的荧光光谱, 构建三维响应数据阵, 然后运用三线性分解算法进行解析. 组分数N取3时, 采用基于平行因子分析(PARAFAC)算法的二阶校正法获得的平均回收率(AR)为(102.0±4.1)%, 预测残差平方根(RMSEP)为0.0197; 采用基于满秩平行因子分析(FRA-PARAFAC)算法的二阶校正法获得的平均回收率(AR)和预测残差平方根(RMSEP)分别为(102.4±4.0)%和0.0207. 两种算法可以得到相似且满意的结果.     

Simultaneous analysis of riboflavin and aromatic amino acids in beer using fluorescence and multivariate calibration methods

The study demonstrates an application of the front-face fluorescence spectroscopy combined with multivariate regression methods to the analysis of fluorescent beer components. Partial least-squares regressions (PLS1, PLS2, and N-way PLS) were utilized to develop calibration models between synchronous fluorescence spectra and excitation-emission matrices of beers, on one hand, and analytical concentrations of riboflavin and aromatic amino acids, on the other hand. The best results were obtained in the analysis of excitation-emission matrices using the N-way PLS2 method. The respective correlation coefficients, and the values of the root mean-square error of cross-validation (RMSECV), expressed as percentages of the respective mean analytic concentrations, were: 0.963 and 14% for riboflavin, 0.974 and 4% for tryptophan, 0.980 and 4% for tyrosine, and 0.982 and 19% for phenylalanine.     

Total synchronous fluorescence spectroscopic data modeled with first- and second-order algorithms for the determination of doxorubicin in human plasma

In this work, we present the development of a method for the determination of doxorubicin in plasma samples in the presence of an unexpected component (riboflavin) by using total synchronous fluorescence spectroscopic data matrices. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the second-order advantage is obtained with this kind of data. Two strategies including unfolding the data and: (a) processing with multivariate curve resolution coupled to alternating least-squares as first-order data or (b) processing with unfolded partial least-squares and exploiting the second-order advantage by the residual bilinearization procedure were considered. The calibration set was built with human plasma samples spiked with doxorubicin, while the validation set was prepared with human plasma samples spiked with both doxorubicin and riboflavin, a drug whose spectrum highly overlaps with the one corresponding to doxorubicin. Both methodologies reached good indicators of accuracy: recoveries of ca. 100?±?8 % and REP of ca. 5 %; and precision: coefficient of variations between 7 and 9 %.

Simultaneous determination of naphazoline and pyridoxine in eye drops using excitation–emission matrix fluorescence coupled with second-order calibration method based on alternating trilinear decomposition algorithm

A novel method is developed for the direct determination of naphazoline hydrochloride(NAP) and pyridoxine hydrochloride(VB6) in commercial eye drops. By using excitation–emission matrix(EEM)fluorescence coupled with second-order calibration method based on the alternating trilinear decomposition(ATLD) algorithm, the proposed approach can achieve quantitative analysis successfully even in the presence of unknown and uncalibrated interferences. The method shows good linearity for NAP and VB6 with correlation coefficients greater than 0.99. The results were in good agreement with the labeled contents. To further confirm the feasibility and reliability of the proposed method, the same batch samples were analyzed by multiple reaction monitoring(MRM) based on LC–MS/MS method.T-test demonstrated that there are no significant differences between the prediction results of the two methods. The satisfactory results obtained in this work indicate that the use of the second-order calibration method coupled with the EEM is a promising tool for industrial quality control and pharmaceutical analysis due to its advantages of high sensitivity, low-cost and simple implementation.     

Quantitative analysis of levodopa, carbidopa and methyldopa in human plasma samples using HPLC-DAD combined with second-order calibration based on alternating trilinear decomposition algorithm

An HPLC method combined with second-order calibration based on alternating trilinear decomposition (ATLD) algorithm has been developed for the quantitative analysis of levodopa (LVD), carbidopa (CBD) and methyldopa (MTD) in human plasma samples. Prior to the analysis of the analytes by ATLD algorithm, three time regions of chromatograms were selected purposely for each analyte to avoid serious collinearity. Although the spectra of these analytes were similar and interferents coeluted with the analytes studied in biological samples, good recoveries of the analytes could be obtained with HPLC-DAD coupled with second-order calibration based on ATLD algorithm, additional benefits are decreasing times of analysis and less solvent consumption. The average recoveries achieved from ATLD with the factor number of 3 (N = 3) were 100.1 ± 2.1, 96.8 ± 1.7 and 104.2 ± 2.6% for LVD, CBD and MTD, respectively. In addition, elliptical joint confidence region (EJCR) tests as well as figures of merit (FOM) were employed to evaluate the accuracy of the method.