Healthy Chinese Volunteers (healthy + chinese_volunteer)

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OATP1B1 388A>G polymorphism and pharmacokinetics of pitavastatin in Chinese healthy volunteers

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACY & THERAPEUTICS, Issue 1 2010
J. Wen PhD
Summary Purpose:, To investigate the contribution of the most frequent single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) of the organic anion transporting polypeptide 1B1 (OATP1B1) 388A>G to the pharmacokinetics of pitavastatin in Chinese healthy volunteers. Methods:, Eighteen healthy volunteers participated in this study. Group 1 consisted of nine subjects who were of 388AA wild-type OATP1B1 genotype. Group 2 consisted of seven subjects with the 388GA genotype and two 388GG homozygotes. Two milligram of pitavastatin was administered orally to the volunteers. The plasma concentration of pitavastatin was measured for up to 48 h by liquid chromatography,mass spectrometry (LC,MS). Results:, The pharmacokinetic parameters of pitavastatin were significantly different between the two genotyped groups. The concentration (Cmax) value was higher in the 388GA + 388GG group than that in the 388AA group (39·22 ± 8·45 vs. 22·90 ± 4·03 ng/mL, P = 0·006). The area under the curve to the last measurable concentration (AUC0,48) and area under the curve extrapolated to infinity (AUC0,,) of pitavastatin were lower in the 388AA group than in the 388GA + 388GG group (100·42 ± 21·19 vs. 182·19 ± 86·46 ng h/mL, P = 0·024; 108·12 ± 24·94 vs. 199·64 ± 98·70ng h/mL, P = 0·026) respectively. The oral clearance (Cl/F) was lower in the 388GA + 388GG group than that in the 388AA group (12·46 ± 4·79 vs. 19·21 ± 3·74/h, P = 0·012). The elimination of half-life (t1/2) and peak concentration times (Tmax) values showed no difference between these groups. Conclusions:, The OATP 388A>G polymorphism causes significant alterations in the pharmacokinetics of pitavastatin in healthy Chinese volunteers and this may well be clinically significant. [source]


Quantification of fudosteine in human plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry employing precolumn derivatization with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate

JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (INCORP BIOLOGICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY), Issue 5 2006
Fengguo Xu
Abstract This paper describes a novel method for the sensitive and selective determination of fudosteine in human plasma. The method involves a derivatization step with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC-Cl) in borate buffer and detection based on high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC/ESI/MS). After acetonitrile-induced protein precipitation of plasma samples, fudosteine was derivatized with FMOC-Cl, then extracted by ethyl acetate, evaporated, reconstituted and injected using an LC/ESI/MS instrument. Separation was achieved using an ODS column and isocratic elution. Excellent linearity was obtained for the entire calibration range from 0.05 to 20 µg/ml. Validation assays of the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) as well as for the intra- and inter-batch precision and accuracy met the international acceptance criteria for bioanalytical method validation. Using the developed analytical method, fudosteine could be detected for the first time in human plasma with a low limit of detection (LLOD) of 0.03 µg/ml. The proposed method has been successfully applied to study the pharmacokinetics of fudosteine in healthy Chinese volunteers after single and multiple oral administration. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Rapid simultaneous determination of codeine and morphine in plasma using LC-ESI-MS/MS: Application to a clinical pharmacokinetic study

JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, JSS, Issue 2 2009
Qiongfeng Liao
Abstract A rapid and sensitive high-performance LC-MS/MS method was developed and validated for the simultaneous quantification of codeine and its metabolite morphine in human plasma using donepezil as an internal standard (IS). Following a single liquid-liquid extraction with ethyl acetate, the analytes were separated using an isocratic mobile phase on a C18 column and analyzed by MS/MS in the selected reaction monitoring mode using the respective [M+H]+ ions, mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) 300/165 for codeine, m/z 286/165 for morphine and m/z 380/91 for IS. The method exhibited a linear dynamic range of 0.2,100/0.5,250 ng/mL for codeine/morphine in human plasma, respectively. The lower LOQs were 0.2 and 0.5 ng/mL for codeine and its metabolite morphine using 0.5 mL of human plasma. Acceptable precision and accuracy were obtained for concentrations over the standard curve range. A run time of 2.0 min for each sample made it possible to analyze more than 300 human plasma samples per day. The validated LC-MS/MS method was applied to a pharmacokinetic study in which healthy Chinese volunteers each received a single oral dose of 30 mg codeine phosphate. [source]


Determination of bergenin in human plasma after oral administration by HPLC-MS/MS method and its pharmacokinetic study

BIOMEDICAL CHROMATOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2009
Jin Wang
Abstract A highly sensitive, simple and selective high-performance liquid chromatography,tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method was developed and applied to the determination of bergenin concentration in human plasma. Bergenin and the internal standard (IS) thiamphenicol in plasma were extracted with ethyl acetate, separated on a C18 reversed-phase column, eluted with mobile phase of acetonitrile,water, ionized by negative ion pneumatically assisted electrospray and detected in the multi-reaction monitoring mode using precursor , product ions of m/z 327.1 , 192 for bergenin and 354 , 185.1 for the IS, respectively. The linear range of the calibration curve for bergenin was 0.25,60 ng mL,1, with the lowest limit of quantification of 0.25 ng mL,1, and the intra/inter-day relative standard deviation (RSD) was less than 10%. The method is suitable for the determination of low bergenin concentration in human plasma after therapeutic oral doses, and has been first and successfully used for its pharmacokinetic studies in healthy Chinese volunteers. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]