Application of overpressured layer chromatography combined with digital autoradiography and mass spectrometry in the study of deramciclane metabolism

J AOAC Int. 1999 Mar-Apr;82(2):231-8.

Abstract

Overpressured layer chromatography was combined with the highly sensitive and rapid digital autoradiography (DAR) and mass spectrometry to separate, detect, and identify 3H- and 14C-labeled deramciclane metabolites in different biological matrixes. Several minor and major metabolites were separated from plasma and urine samples. The radioactive metabolites localized by DAR were scraped from the thin-layer chromatographic plate and transferred to a mass spectrometer for structure identification. Several metabolites were isolated and characterized, including hydroxy-N-desmethyl deramciclane, which is described in detail. The combination of techniques is efficient and has good sensitivity: about 2 micrograms metabolite from a biological matrix was isolated and identified this way.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Anxiety Agents / pharmacokinetics*
  • Autoradiography / methods*
  • Camphanes / blood
  • Camphanes / pharmacokinetics*
  • Camphanes / urine
  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Chromatography / methods*
  • Dogs
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Serotonin Antagonists / pharmacokinetics*
  • Tritium

Substances

  • Anti-Anxiety Agents
  • Camphanes
  • Carbon Radioisotopes
  • Serotonin Antagonists
  • Tritium
  • deramciclane