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A rapid, simple and specific liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) method has been developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of enalapril and its major active metabolite enalaprilat in human plasma. Benazepril hydrochloride was used as the internal standard. Plasma was deproteinized with acetone and centrifuged. The supernatant was transferred and evaporated to dryness and the residue dissolved in mobile phase. Samples were separated on a C18 column with a mobile phase of methanol–20 mM ammonium acetate (53:47, v/v) containing 0.15% trifluoracetic acid (v/v) with a pH of 3.0. Enalapril, enalaprilat and the internal standard were measured by electrospray positive selective ion monitoring mode. The method was validated over a linear range of 1.56–400 ng mL−1 and the limits of quantification were 1.56 ng mL−1 for both enalapril and enalaprilat using 0.1 mL plasma. Extraction efficiency was more than 84% and recoveries were in range of 93.65–101.17%. The intra-day relative standard deviations (RSD) were less than 8.16 and 7.05% and inter-day RSDs were within 8.42 and 5.72% for enalapril and enalaprilat, respectively. The storage stability of QC samples was investigated under various conditions. The method was successfully applied for the evaluation of the pharmacokinetics and bioequivalence of enalapril and enalaprilat in 20 healthy volunteers after an oral dose of 20 mg enalapril maleate.
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Wang, P., Liang, YZ., Chen, BM. et al. Simultaneous Determination of Enalapril and Enalaprilat in Human Plasma by LC-MS: Application to a Bioequivalence Study. Chroma 65, 209–215 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1365/s10337-006-0129-y
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