High-performance liquid chromatographic procedures for the quantitative determination of paclitaxel (Taxol) in human urine

M. T. Huizing, H. Rosing, F. Koopman, A. C F Keung, H. M. Pinedo, J. H. Beijnen

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Abstract

A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method has been developed and validated for the quantitative determination of paclitaxel in human urine. A comparison is made between solid-phase extraction (SPE) and liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) as sample pretreatment. The HPLC system consists of an APEX octyl analytical column and acetonitrile-methanol-0.2 μM ammonium acetate buffer pH 5 (4:1:5, v/v) as the mobile phase. Detection is performed by UV absorbance measurement at 227 nm. The SPE procedure involves extraction on Cyano Bond Elut columns. n-Butylchloride is the organic extraction fluid used for the LLE. The recoveries of paclitaxel in human urine are 79 and 75% for SPE and LLE, respectively. The accuracy for the LLE and SPE sample pretreatment procedures is 100.4 and 104.9%, respectively, at a 5 μg/ml drug concentration. The lower limit of quantitation is 0.01 μg/ml for SPE and 0.25 μg/ml for LLE. Stability data of paclitaxel in human urine are also presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)373-382
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications
Volume664
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 1995
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry

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