Development and Application of HPLC Method for Clinical Pharmacokinetic Study of Domperidone
A simple and sensitive high performance liquid chromatographic method for quantification of domperidone in human serum was developed and validated. Domperi-done and internal standard (IS) propranolol hydrochloride were extracted into acetonitrile and separated using an isocratic mobile phase on a Phenomenx C18 column. The eluent was monitored by UV detector at 270 nm at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min–1. The linearity range of proposed method was 2.5–1000 ng/ml. The intra-day and inter-day coefficient of variation and percent error values of the assay method were less than 15% and mean recovery was more than 97 and 96% for domperidone and IS, respectively. The method was found to be precise, accurate and specific during the study. The method was successfully applied for pharmacokinetic study of domperidone in humans.