Rapid determination of five probe drugs and their metabolites in human plasma and urine by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry: application to cytochrome P450 phenotyping studies.

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Yin OQ, Lam SS, Lo CM, Chow MS

Rapid determination of five probe drugs and their metabolites in human plasma and urine by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry: application to cytochrome P450 phenotyping studies.

Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2004;18(23):2921-33. doi: 10.1002/rcm.1704.

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Abstract

A liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry method, for rapid determination of five cytochrome P450 (CYP) probe drugs and their relevant metabolites in human plasma and urine, is described. The five specific probe substrates/metabolites, caffeine/paraxanthine (CYP1A2), tolbutamide/4-hydroxytolbutamide/carboxytolbutamide (CYP2C9), omeprazole/5-hydroxyomeprazole (CYP2C19), debrisoquine/5-hydroxydebrisoquine (CYP2D6) and midazolam/1'-hydroxymidazolam (CYP3A), together with the internal standards (phenacetin and paracetamol), in plasma and urine, were extracted using solid-phase extraction. The chromatography was performed using a C18 column with an isocratic mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid in water (70:30). The triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer was operated in both positive and negative modes, and multiple reaction monitoring was used for quantification. The method was validated over the concentration ranges 0.05-5 microg/mL for caffeine and paraxanthine, 0.02-2 microg/mL for tolbutamide, 0.1-20 microg/mL for 4-hydroxytolbutamide, carboxytolbutamide, debrisoquine and 5-hydroxydebrisoquine, 5-2500 ng/mL for omeprazole and 5-hydroxyomeprazole, and 1-100 ng/mL for midazolam and 1'-hydroxymidazolam. The intra- and inter-day precision were 0.3-13.7% and 1.9-14.3%, respectively, and the accuracy ranged from 93.5-107.2%. The lower limit of quantification varied between 1 and 100 ng/mL. The present method provides a robust, fast and sensitive analytical tool for the five-probe drug cocktail, and has been successfully applied to a clinical phenotyping study in 16 subjects.

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Drug Enzymes
DrugEnzymeKindOrganismPharmacological ActionActions
HypoxanthineCytochrome P450 1A2ProteinHumans
No
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XanthineCytochrome P450 1A2ProteinHumans
No
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