(1) Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handa-cho 3600, 431-31 Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, Japan;(2) Department of Chemistry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handa-cho, 431-31 Hamamatsu, Japan
Abstract:
Methotrexate (N10-methyl-4-aminofolic acid) has been determined by HPLC after oxidizing it with permanganate to a fluorogenic derivative. The detection limit has been 0.01 g/ml. The method has been applied for the determination of methotrexate in blood serum of rats.