Bioanalysis of drugs by liquid-phase microextraction coupled to separation techniques

Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard*, Knut Einar Rasmussen

*Corresponding author for this work
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    Abstract

    The demand for automation of liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) in drug analysis combined with the demand for reduced sample preparation time has led to the recent development of liquid-phase microextraction (LPME) based on disposable hollow fibres. In LPME, target drugs are extracted from aqueous biological samples, through a thin layer of organic solvent immobilised within the pores of the wall of a porous hollow fibre, and into an μl volume of acceptor solution inside the lumen of the hollow fibre. After extraction, the acceptor solution is subjected directly to a final analysis either by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), capillary electrophoresis (CE), mass spectrometry (MS), or capillary gas chromatography (GC) without any further treatments. Hollow fibre-based LPME may provide high enrichment of drugs and excellent sample clean-up, and probably has a broad application potential within the area of drug analysis. This review focuses on the principle of LPME, and recent applications of three-phase, two-phase, and carrier mediated LPME of drugs from plasma, whole blood, urine, and breast milk.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalJournal of Chromatography B: Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences
    Volume817
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)3-12
    Number of pages10
    ISSN1570-0232
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Mar 2005

    Keywords

    • Breast milk
    • Drug analysis
    • Hollow fibres
    • Liquid-phase microextraction
    • Plasma
    • Urine
    • Whole blood

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