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Alqarni M, Iqbal M, Foudah AI, Aljarba TM, Abdel Bar F, Alshehri S, Shakeel F, Alam P. Quantification of Suvorexant in Human Urine Using a Validated HPTLC Bioanalytical Method. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:39928-39935. [PMID: 37901579 PMCID: PMC10601068 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c07123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
Abstract
Suvorexant (SUV) is a new sedative/hypnotic medicine that is recommended to treat insomnia. It is an important medicine from a forensic point of view due to its sedative/hypnotic and depressant effects. To the best of our knowledge, high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) bioanalytical methods have not been published to measure SUV in human urine and pharmaceutical samples. Accordingly, this study was designed and validated a sensitive and rapid bioanalytical HPTLC method to determine SUV in human urine samples for the very first time. The densitometric measurement of SUV and the internal standard (IS; sildenafil) was performed on glass-coated silica gel normal-phase-60F254S TLC plates using a mixture of chloroform and methanol (97.5:2.5 v/v) as the eluent system. Both the SUV and IS were detected at a wavelength of 254 nm. Both analytes were extracted using the protein precipitation technique utilizing methanol as the solvent. For the IS and SUV, the Rf values were 0.09 and 0.45, respectively. The proposed bioanalytical method for SUV was linear in the 50-1600 ng/band range. The current bioanalytical technique was linear, precise (% RSD = 3.28-4.20), accurate (% recovery = 97.58-103.80), robust (% recovery = 95.31-102.34 and % RSD = 2.81-3.15), rapid, and sensitive (LOD = 3.73 ng/band and LOQ = 11.20 ng/band). These findings suggested that the current bioanalytical method can be regularly used to determine SUV in wide varieties of urine samples.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mohammed
H. Alqarni
- Department
of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Prince
Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
| | - Muzaffar Iqbal
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
| | - Ahmed I. Foudah
- Department
of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Prince
Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
| | - Tariq M. Aljarba
- Department
of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Prince
Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
| | - Fatma Abdel Bar
- Department
of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Prince
Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
| | - Sultan Alshehri
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, AlMaarefa University, Ad Diriyah 13713, Saudi Arabia
| | - Faiyaz Shakeel
- Department
of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King
Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
| | - Prawez Alam
- Department
of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Prince
Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
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