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Determination of glucosamine in horse plasma by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.

Beaudry F, Vachon P

Department of Veterinary Biomedicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, 3200 Sicotte, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada J2S 2M2. Francis.beaudry@umontreal.ca

Glucosamine is an amino sugar involved in the biosynthesis of glycosylated proteins and lipids. Recently, with increased public interest in natural products medicine, glucosamine has been widely used to treat osteoarthritis, even though demonstrations of its actual efficacy remain relatively unknown. Information related to the pharmcokinetics of glucosamine is sparse. A recent analytical method published used 13C-glucosamine as an internal standard to analyse study samples. The method lacked accuracy owing to an important natural isotopic contribution of glucosamine to 13C-glucosamine ion abundance. This manuscript describes a simple method to quantify glucosamine in horse plasma. Glucosamine was extracted by protein precipitation with acetonotrile containing 0.1% formic acid. The chromatography was performed on a Agilent Hypersil-ODS 100x2.1 mm column with a mobile phase composed of acetonitrile and 0.5% formic acid in water (45:55) at a flow rate of 0.3 mL/min. A linear (1/x) relationship was used to perform the calibration over an analytical range of 10-1000 ng/mL. The inter-batch precision and accuracy ranged from 5.3 to 11.3% and from 87.8 to 107.2% in horse plasma, respectively. The mean endogenous level of glucosamine in horse plasma was 14.4 ng/mL (n=6). This LC-ESI/MS/MS method for the determination of glucosamine in horse plasma provided results within generally accepted criteria used for bioanalytical assay.

Published 20 December 2007 in Biomed Chromatogr, 22(1): 1-4.
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