Solid-phase column chromatographic and gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric determination of heptaminol in human urine and related pharmacokinetic profiles.
Ying Lung Tseng, Chin-Hung Liu, Fan-Hsin Kuo, Min-Hua Shieh
Index: J. Anal. Toxicol. 30(6) , 365-9, (2006)
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Abstract
Heptaminol is an antihypotensive drug and is one of the stimulants banned in sport competitions. When heptaminol was fortified to a drug-free urine sample and subjected to solid-phase extraction, trifluroacetic anhydride derivatization, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis, the results indicated three chromatographic peaks, with one major peak [peak 1 (P1) as heptaminol-2TFA], appearing at retention time 7.17 min, and two minor peaks [peak 2 (P2) and peak 3 (P3) as heptaminol-TFA], appearing at RT 5.87 and 5.81 min, respectively. The characteristic ions of peak mass spectra were m/z 322, 224, and 140 for P1, m/z 223 (molecular ion), 208, 140, and 110 for P2, and m/z 208, 140, and 110 for P3. The urine samples collected from healthy male volunteers who orally ingested a single dose (100 mg) of heptaminol were similar to the analytical results shown in the heptaminol-spiked control urine samples. This result suggested that the unchanged heptaminol was the sole form found in urine. The unchanged parent compound was completely eliminated in urine within 24 h and an average of approximately 97% of the dose was excreted through the renal pathway.
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