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Ethionamide Metabolite Analysis from Plasma

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:51 pm
by sandip.gurav
Dear All,

Presentely I m working on Ethionamide & its Sulfoxide metabolite
(Ethionamide Sulfoxide) from plasma.The problem i ve faced is failure of
Sulfoxide linearity.Following procedure have used.
Stock Prep. in Methanol for Ethionamide & in CHCl3 for Ethionamide Sulfoxide bcauze Ethionamide Sulfoxide is not stable in Methanol.
CC dilutions for Ethionamide are prepared in MeOH : H2O (50:50).
CC dilutions for Ethionamide Sulfoxide are prepared in CHCl3.

Aqueous CC Preparation
50 µL of each of the above mixed with 800 µL of Mobile Phase
(ACN :0.1 % Acetic Acid 80:20 )+100 µL IS (Prothionamide).

Extraction Precedure:

200 µL of Spiked plasma + 40 µL of IS +40µL of 0.1 M Na Acetate
Vortex for 0.5 min
4 mL of Chloroform, Vortex , Centrifuge Separated 3 mL & Evaporated
& reconstituted in 750 µL of MP. 5 µL of same injected.

CC for ethionamide is fine (Both Aqueous & Extracted) but that of Sulfoxide is not linear.

The Difference in Ethionamide & Ethionamide Sulfoxide is one Oxygen atom.

I m using LCMSMS (API 2000) .
If any one worked on this please reply my email ID is
sandip.gurav@gmail.com

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:25 pm
by Uwe Neue
Ion suppression?

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:51 pm
by james little
Excellent book on ion suppression/enhancement plus many other useful topics..

http://www.amazon.com/Using-Mass-Spectr ... 0849319633

Also, we have done some studies which are shown at

http://littledomain.com/james/files/text.pdf

plus other info at

http://users.chartertn.net/slittle/