Determination of N-acetylcysteine in human plasma by liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry |
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Authors: | C. Celma, J. A. Allu , J. Pru onosa, C. Peraire,R. Obach |
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Affiliation: | C. Celma, J. A. Allué, J. Pruñonosa, C. Peraire,R. Obach |
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Abstract: | An analytical method for the determination of total N-acetylcysteine in human plasma has been developed, validated and applied to the analysis of samples from a phase I clinical trial. The analytical method consists of plasma digestion with dithiothreitol in order to reduce all the oxidized forms of N-acetylcysteine, and extraction with ethyl acetate followed by determination of levels by an LC–MS–MS method. The intra- and inter-assay precision and accuracy of this technique were good and the limit of quantitation was 50 ng/ml of plasma. The concentration working range was established between 50 ng/ml and 1000 ng/ml. This method has been used in the analysis of approximately 800 human plasma samples from a clinical study with 24 volunteers; the precision of the quality controls was in the range 8.7 to 13.4% and the accuracy was in the range −5.9 to 8.5%, expressed as the RSD and the relative error, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Acetylcysteine Amino acids Acetylserine |
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