A rapid, accurate and sensitive HPLC method has been developed and validated for the quantitative determination of lispro and glargine insulin analogues in pharmaceutical preparations. Pharmacopeial method for the determination of insulin lispro employed mobile phase constituted by phosphate buffer solution 0.1mol/L (pH 2.3) and acetonitrile (74 + 26, v/v) and flow rate of 0.8mL/ min. Retention time was estimated to be 25 minutes and the temperature of the column maintained to 40ºC. No pharmacopeial method was found to the determination of insulin glargine. For this reason, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a new chromatographic method for the determination of lispro and glargine insulin analogues in pharmaceutical preparations. Solutions were prepared using the mobile phase (methanol-water, 70:30) as solvent and filtered through a 0.2 µm membrane. Aliquots of 20µL were injected into the HPLC. The method validation parameters yielded good results and included range, linearity, precision, accuracy, specificity, and recovery. The calibration curves for lispro and glargine insulin analogues were linear from 0.1 to 3.5UI/ mL, with correlation coefficients of 0.9990 and 0.9995, respectively. The interday and intraday precisions (relative standard deviation) were less than 1%. The accuracy was studied and the recovery test indicated mean absolute of 100.99% and 98.76% for lispro and glargine insulin analogues, respectively. The results obtained by HPLC method were calculated by analysis of variance (ANOVA). We concluded that the HPLC method proposed is satisfactory for the quantification of lispro and glargine insulin analogues in pharmaceutical preparations.
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Development of a New HPLC Method for the Determination of Lispro and Glargine Insulin Analogues in Pharmaceutical Preparations 30Copyright: ©2018 Moreno et al.the sample or the stationary phase by means of ion pairing. It should be noted that a change in buffer could result in a change in selectivity [32,33].In this work, the parameters developed for the determination of insulin analogues did not employed buffer, and the mobile phase (methanol/water, 70:30) used is simple and advantageous; the most quality control applications can be carried out with methanol/water as a mobile phase.For this reason, the purpose of the present work was to describe the development and validation of the simple and accurate HPLC method for the analysis of lispro and glargine insulin analogues in pharmaceutical preparations.
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SamplesInsulin lispro (lot9074) and glargine insulin (lot73A) reference solutions with assigned purity of 100UI/mL as well the pharmaceutical preparations (injections) were generous donated by Eli Lilly (São Paulo, Brazil) and Sanofi-Aventis Ltda (São Paulo, Brazil). Insulin lispro injection was claimed to contain 100UI/mL of drug and glycerol, metacresol, sodium phosphate, zinc oxide and water as excipient. Insulin glargine injection was claimed to contain 100UI/mL of drug and glycerol, cresol, hydrochlor...