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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gaudette, Fleur
• Hamadjida, Adjia
• Bédard, Dominique
• Nuara, Stephen G.
• Beaudry, Francis
• Huot, Philippe

Titel

Development and validation of a high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method to quantify LY‐354,740 in rat and marmoset plasma

Ist Teil von

• Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences, 2017-09, Vol.1061-1062, p.392-398

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Development and validation of an ultra sensitive method LY-354,740 by UHPLC-HESI–MS/MS.•The method uses a very limited volume of marmoset plasma for analysis.•The chromatographic system uses a unique mode of separation (i.e. reverse-phase, cation-exchange and anion-exchange).. LY-354,740 (eglumegad) is a selective and potent agonist of the metabotropic glutamate group II receptors (mGluR2,3) that has already entered clinical trials as a potential anti-psychotic agent and therefore has well-documented pharmacokinetic (PK), safety and tolerability profiles in human. Whereas its development as an anti-psychotic agent has not been pursued, LY-354,740 may have potential in other neuroscience-related fields, notably anxiety and neuro-protection. The common marmoset is a small primate that has long been used in neuroscience. However, given its small size and small circulating blood volume, conducting PK studies to determine the therapeutic effectiveness of LY-354,740 at clinically-relevant doses is challenging. Here, we have developed and validated a simple, sensitive and selective analytical method that enables quantification of LY-354,740 using a small volume of plasma. The analytical method consisted of protein precipitation followed by high-performance liquid chromatography with heat assisted electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HESI–MS/MS). The chromatographic separation was achieved using gradient elution with a mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile and 10mM ammonium formate (pH 3) on a Thermo Scientific Acclaim Trinity P1 analytical column (100x3.0mm I.D., 3μm) operating at 45°C and at a flow rate of 900μl/min. The method displays a linear relationship ranging from 20.0 to 5000ng/ml. Intra- and inter-day relative standard deviations are less than 5.7% and 7.0%, respectively and the accuracy ranged from 91.0 to 106.0%. The UHPLC-HESI–MS/MS analytical method we describe here is simple, sensitive, specific and capable of quantifying LY-354,740 in both rat and marmoset plasma, and is suitable to conduct PK studies after a single sub-cutaneous dose of 1.0mg/kg or lower in both species.