Determination of paraquat and diquat in human body fluids by high‐performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry

Journal of Mass Spectrometry - Tập 39 Số 10 - Trang 1147-1152 - 2004
Xiao‐Pen Lee1, Takeshi Kumazawa1, Masaya Fujishiro1, Chika Hasegawa1, Tetsuya Arinobu2, Hiroshi Seno2, Akira Ishii3, Keizo Sato1
1Department of Legal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan
2Department of Legal Medicine, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute-cho, Aichi 480-1195, Japan
3Department of Legal Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake 470-1192, Japan

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AbstractParaquat (PQ) and diquat (DQ) in human whole blood and urine were analyzed by high‐performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) with positive ion electrospray ionization (ESI). The compounds were extracted with Sep‐Pak C18 cartridges from whole blood and urine samples containing ethyl paraquat as an internal standard. The separation of PQ and DQ was carried out using ion‐pair chromatography with heptafluorobutyric acid in 20 mM ammonium acetate and acetonitrile gradient elution for successful coupling with MS. Both compounds formed base peaks due to [M  H]+ ions by HPLC/ESI‐MS and the product ions produced from each [M  H]+ ion by HPLC/MS/MS. Selective reaction monitoring (SRM) showed much higher sensitivity for both body fluids. Therefore, a detailed procedure for the detection of compounds by SRM with HPLC/MS/MS was established and carefully validated. The recoveries of PQ and DQ were 80.8–95.4% for whole blood and 84.2–96.7% for urine. The calibration curves for PQ and DQ showed excellent linearity in the range of 25–400 ng ml−1 of whole blood and urine. The detection limits were 10 ng ml−1 for PQ and 5 ng ml−1 for DQ in both body fluids. The intra‐ and inter‐day precision for both compounds in whole blood and urine samples were not greater than 13.0%. The data obtained from the determination of PQ and DQ in rat blood after oral administration of the compounds are also presented. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Tập 39 Số 10

1147-1152

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