Determination of terbutaline enantiomers in biological samples using liquid chromatography with coupled columns

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The purpose of this work was to develop and validate a method for the separation and determination of the enantiomers of terbutaline in plasma and intestinal juice. Terbutaline was extracted from plasma and intestinal juice by liquid-solid extraction on small C18 cartridges. The extract was then analyzed by coupled column liquid chromatography with amperometric detecton. For ciral separation a β-cyclodextrin phase was used. The within-day variation (Cv) on spiked plasma samples was in the rane 0.8-6.4% at 3.8-33.8 nmol/liter for the (−)-enantiomer, and 2.6-23.0% at 1.3-11.3 nmol/liter for the (+)-enantiomer. The between-day variation on spiked plasma samples was 5.5% at 10.7 nmol/liter and 13.6% at 4.3 nmol/liter for the (−)- and (+)-enantiomers, respectively. The within-day variation for inestinal juice was i the range 0.7-1.5% at 5.6-30.0 μmol/liter for the (+)-enantiomer.

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