A stability-indicating high-performance liquid chromatography procedure has been developed for the determination of alizapride (AL) and its main degradation products alizapride carboxylic acid (AL-CA) and alizapride N-oxide (AL-NO2) in drug substance and product. The method was developed based on forced degradation data obtained by HPLC-MS analysis. Indeed AL underwent chemical degradation by acid/base catalyzed hydrolysis and oxidation the main degradation products being AL-CA and AL-NO2 respectively. The separation and quantisation were achieved on a 150-mm reverse phase column with a hydrophilic linkage between silica particles and hydrophobic alkyl chains. The mobile phase was constituted (flow rate 1.5mLmin(-1)) of eluant A: aqueous acetate buffer (pH 4.0; 20mM) and eluant B: CH(3)OH using a gradient elution and detection of analytes at 225nm. The method showed good linearity for the AL, AL-CA, AL-NO2 mixture in the 25-75, 1-15 and 1-15microgmL(-1) ranges respectively, being all the square of the correlation coefficients greater than 0.999. The precision, determined in terms of intra-day and inter-day precisions and expressed as RSDs were 0.8, 1.3 and 2.1% and 1.0, 1.7, 4.8% for AL, AL-CA and AL-NO2 respectively. The method demonstrated also to be accurate; indeed the average recoveries, at 100% and 0.2% of the target assay concentration, were 100.5, 98.6, and 96.8% for AL, AL-CA and AL-NO2 respectively. The robustness was also evaluated by variations of mobile phase composition and pH. Finally, the applicability of the method was evaluated in commercial dosage form analysis as well as in stability studies.
The potential interactions between rabeprazole, a widely used proton pump inhibitor, and anticancer drugs (5-fluorouracil, docetaxel, cyclophosphamide, gemcitabine, methotrexate, doxorubicin, etoposide) or drugs commonly present in the therapy of oncological patients (fluoxetine and ondansetron), were studied using in vitro human liver microsomes. The interactions between rabeprazole and the anticancer drugs were evaluated by measuring their concentrations in test and control incubations with HPLC-DAD-UV methods. To achieve this aim, nine HPLC-DAD-UV methods were developed using different stationary and mobile phases. The methods were then validated for the following parameters: selectivity, linearity, precision, and accuracy. As expected rabeprazole did not significantly inhibit the metabolism of the evaluated drugs in human liver microsomal preparations at the selected concentrations. These results shows that rabeprazole probably could be devoid of pharmacokinetic interactions with common drugs used during chemotherapy.
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