CD-1 female mice were injected intravenously with a single dose of 20 mg per kg in water and showed no adverse effects. Plasma samples were taken from 3 mice per time point (5, 15, 30 min; 1, 2, 4, 8 and 24 h post-dose). An aliquot of plasma sample or calibration sample was mixed with three volumes of methanol containing internal standard, incubated on ice for 5 min, and centrifuged. The protein-free supernatant was analysed by LC/MS/MS using an Agilent 6410 mass spectrometer coupled with an Agilent
1200 HPLC and a
CTC PAL chilled autosampler, all controlled by
MassHunter software (Agilent). After separation on a
C18 reverse phase HPLC column (Agilent) using an acetonitrile-water gradient system, peaks were analysed by mass spectrometry using ESI ionization in MRM mode. The product
m/
z analysed was 134.1D, which provided a low limit of quantification of 1 ng ml
−1. The mean plasma concentration and the standard deviation from all 3 animals within each time point were calculated. PK parameters of test agent were calculated with a non-compartmental analysis model basedon WinNonlin. The mean plasma concentrations fromall3 mice at each time point were used in the calculation.
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