“…However, for routine analysis this approach is not suitable, as it requires radioactively labled compounds. Alternative methods are enzyme immunoassay (Yamamato et al, 1985), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with electrochemical detection (Qureshi and Eriksson, 1988), HPLC with diode array detection and solid-phase extraction (Brambilla et al, 2001), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry using molecular imprinted polymers as stationary phase (Kootstra et al, 2005), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Ramos et al, 1998;Reig et al, 2005). All these studies focus on analyzing the racemic drug; however, no enantioselective method or its application to rat plasma has been described.…”