Development and Validation of a Quantitative Determination Method for Sulfasalazine in Rabbit Blood Plasma and Cell Culture Medium by HPLC-MS/MS
摘要
Aquantitative determination method for sulfasalazine in rabbit blood plasma and Caco-2 cell culture medium by high-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometric detection has been developed. Methanol with valsartan added as an internal standard was used for sample preparation. The method was validated for the parameters selectivity, limit of quantitation, linearity, intra- and inter-run accuracy and precision, sample carryover, matrix effect, extraction effect, and sample stability. The confirmed analytical range of the method was 5 – 5,000 ng/mL for cell culture medium and 50 – 20,000 ng/mL for rabbit blood plasma. The method could be used to study the pharmacokinetics of sulfasalazine in rabbits and to assess the activity of breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) in experiments in vitro and in vivo, the substrate of which was sulfasalazine.