Pharmacokinetic and metabolic analysis of an Alzheimer's disease therapeutic in rat serum via microfluidic CZE-MS.
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| Abstract | :  Sensitive, high-throughput methods for pharmacokinetic (PK) profiling are essential for potential therapeutics during critical stages of clinical trials. The application of a microfluidic capillary zone electrophoresis mass spectrometry (CZE-MS) method for PK profiling allows for rapid, sensitive and in-depth analysis of multiple samples within a short timeframe. Here, a CZE-MS approach for PK analysis was compared with a traditional UHPLC-MS approach when analyzing serum extracts from rats treated with a potential Alzheimer's disease therapeutic, BNC-1. Resulting PK data generated from both methods displayed statistical similarities. Additionally, the separation efficiency attributed to the use of the CZE-MS method provided substantial metabolic regulation data that was not apparent in the UHPLC-MS method. Additionally, the coupling of the CZE-MS method to the data processing software, MZmine2, was used to monitor changes in metabolism and observe putative BNC-1-derived metabolites. The ability to perform fast analyses without sacrificing sensitivity or metabolic information suggests that this CZE-MS method is ideal for metabolomics-inclusive, high-throughput PK profiling. | 
| Year of Publication | :  2022 | 
| Journal | :  Biomedical chromatography : BMC | 
| Volume | :  36 | 
| Issue | :  1 | 
| Number of Pages | :  e5243 | 
| ISSN Number | :  0269-3879 | 
| URL | :  https://doi.org/10.1002/bmc.5243 | 
| DOI | :  10.1002/bmc.5243 | 
| Short Title | :  Biomed Chromatogr | 
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