A liquid chromatographic-Tandem mass spectrometric method for determination of artemether and its metabolite dihydroartemisinin in human plasma

Bioanalysis

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-46

  Hanpithakpong, Warunee ^a   Kamanikom, Benjamas ^a   Singhasivanon, Pratap ^a   White, Nicholas J ^a,b   Day, Nicholas P J ^a,b   Lindegardh, Niklas ^a,b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; BENFLUMETOL; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALIBRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 70349178524     PISSN: 17576180     EISSN: 17576199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/bio.09.6     Document Type: Article

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