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Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Glycosphingolipid Antigens
Published on: April 16, 2013
Chromatography of cardiac glycosides
S J Vetticaden1, A Chandrasekaran
1International Drug Registration, Inc., Rockville, MD 20850.
Abstract:
Most of the recently reported methods for the quantitation of cardiac glycosides have been for digoxin and its metabolites. Recent procedures using high-performance liquid chromatography-radioimmunoassay (HPLC-RIA) and HPLC following derivatization show appreciable improvements in accuracy and specificity for quantitating digoxin in the low nanogram range. Gas chromatographic procedures have been explored to a very limited extent and further advances in the quantitation of cardiac glycosides are anticipated to arise from the use of laser desorption-Fourier transform mass spectrometry. However, currently, HPLC with derivatization and HPLC-RIA techniques remain the techniques of choice for quantitation of digoxin and/or its metabolites based on considerations of ease of use, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and reproducibility.
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