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High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine concentrations in plasma and blood cells in Plasmodium vivax malaria cases following chronic dosage with primaquine.

Abstract
A reversed-phase HPLC method using acetonitrile-methanol-1 M perchloric acid-water (30:9:1:95, v/v) at a flow-rate of 1.5 ml/min on a mu-Bondapak C18 column with UV detection at 254 nm was developed for the separation of primaquine, its major metabolite carboxyprimaquine and other metabolites such as N-acetylprimaquine, 4-hydroxyprimaquine, 5-hydroxyprimaquine, 5-hydroxy-6-methoxyprimaquine, demethylprimaquine and 6-methoxyprimaquine, and also other antimalarials. The calibration graphs were linear in the range 0.025-100 micrograms/ml for primaquine and 4-1000 micrograms/ml for carboxyprimaquine. The within-day and day-to-day coefficients of variation averaged 3.65 and 6.95%, respectively, for primaquine and 3.0 and 7.52%, respectively for carboxyprimaquine in plasma. The extraction recoveries for primaquine and carboxyprimaquine were 89 and 83%, respectively. The mean carboxyprimaquine concentration was much higher in plasma and blood cells of Plasmodium vivax patients than that in plasma from healthy subjects. The carboxyprimaquine level was also higher in blood cells than plasma whereas the primaquine concentration was the same in both cases.
AuthorsV K Dua, P K Kar, R Sarin, V P Sharma
JournalJournal of chromatography. B, Biomedical applications (J Chromatogr B Biomed Appl) Vol. 675 Issue 1 Pg. 93-8 (Jan 12 1996) ISSN: 1572-6495 [Print] Netherlands
PMID8634775 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Antimalarials
  • 8-(3-carboxy-1-methylpropylamino)-6-methoxyquinoline
  • Primaquine
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Antimalarials (blood, therapeutic use)
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid (methods)
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Vivax (drug therapy)
  • Middle Aged
  • Primaquine (administration & dosage, analogs & derivatives, blood, therapeutic use)
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet

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