Abstract
This article describes the development of the first ion pair solid phase extraction technique (IPSPE), which has been applied to the extraction of metformin from plasma samples. In addition an ion pair chromatographic method was developed for the specific HPLC determination of metformin. Several extraction and HPLC methods have been described previously for metformin, however, most of them did not solve the problems associated with the high polarity of this drug. Drug recovery in the developed method was found to be more than 98%. The limit of detection and limit of quantification was 3 and 5ng/ml, respectively. The intraday and interday precision (measured by coefficient of variation, CV%) was always less than 9%. The accuracy (measured by relative error, R.E.%) was always less than 6.9%. Stability analysis showed that metformin is stable for at least 3 months when stored at -70°C. The method has been applied to 150 patient samples as part of a medication adherence study.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 203-209 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Chromatography B: Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences |
Volume | 798 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 25 2003 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Metformin
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analytical Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Cell Biology