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The Analytical Scientist / App Notes / 2017 / Quantitative analysis of estradiol and testosterone in plasma for clinical research using the TSQ Altis triple quadrupole mass spectrometer

Quantitative analysis of estradiol and testosterone in plasma for clinical research using the TSQ Altis triple quadrupole mass spectrometer

12/13/2017

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To develop a sensitive LC-MS/MS method for quantitative analysis of estradiol and testosterone in plasma for clinical research using liquid chromatographic separation coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.

Introduction

Analysis of estradiol and testosterone in plasma samples for clinical research requires a sensitive analytical method. Liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has been widely adopted as an analytically sensitive and selective technique for estradiol and testosterone analysis in complex matrices such as human serum or plasma. 

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Sample preparation
To prepare the samples, 10 μL of spiking solution (final concentration range: 0.5–10 ng/mL) and 20 μL of internal standard (2 ng/mL testosterone- 13 C3 and 20 ng/mL estradiol-d5) were added to 400 μL of plasma. Then 2 mL of MTBE were added and the sample was vortexed. After liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), the MTBE layer was evaporated under nitrogen, and 200 μL of 50:50 methanol/water were added to reconstitute. From this, 10 μL were injected in triplicate for LC-MS/MS analysis.

Liquid chromatography

Chromatographic separation was performed using a Thermo Scientific ™ Vanquish ™ Flex Binary HPLC system equipped with a Thermo Scientific ™ Accucore ™ aQ C18 Polar Endcapped LC column (100 × 2.1 mm, 2.6 μm particle size, P/N 17326-102130). Mobile phases A and B were 0.5 mM ammonium fluoride in Fisher Chemical ™ Optima ™ grade water and pure methanol, respectively. The column temperature was 40 °C. The total run time was 9 minutes (Table 1).

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