K. Selinger, MEASUREMENT OF AMILORIDE IN AIRWAY SURFACE LIQUID UTILIZING HPLC AND FLUORESCENCE DETECTION, BMC. Biomedical chromatography, 8(5), 1994, pp. 219-223
A high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination
of amiloride in airway surface liquid is described. It involves extra
ction of the drug with methanol from filter paper on which the sample
is absorbed and chromatography on a Zorbax Rx column; the mobile phase
is 25% acetonitrile in 0.05 M phosphate buffer; detection by fluoresc
ence at 360/420 nm. Triamterene is used as an internal standard. The r
ange of the assay is 2.0-2033.4 ng/sample, with adequate precision and
accuracy. A power curve y = ax(b) best describes the relationship bet
ween the peak-height ratio and concentration. Recovery of amiloride is
non-linear, probably due to an adsorption process. Accuracy of the as
say at lower amounts may be affected by the choice of filter paper a w
ell as by presence of endogenous plasma components. The assay was used
to measure amiloride amount in airway surface liquid after administra
tion of 2.5 and 4.5 mg of nebulized amiloride.