Abstract:
Ivabradine and
N-desmethylivabradine in human plasma was determined by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS).Diazepam was used as internal standard.Ivabradine and
N-desmethylivabradine was separated on a Diamosil C
18 column (150 mm×4.6 mm×5 μm).Electrospray ionization(ESI) source was applied,and multiple reaction monitoring(MRM) mode was operated in the positive mode with the monitor ions at
m/z 469.2→177.1 for ivabradine,
m/z 455.2→177.1 for
N-desmethylivabradine and
m/z 285.1→193.1 for the interna1 standard, respectively. The linear calibration curve are obtained over the concentration range of 0.101 3—101.3 μg/L for ivabradine and 0.085—25.5 μg/L for
N-desmethylivabradine.The limit of quantitation are 0.101 3 μg/L and 0.085 μg/L for ivabradine and
N-desmethylivabradine, respectively. The inter-day and intra-day precision (RSD) is less than 15%. The average recoveries are above 75%.