A novel spectrofluorimetric method for determination of imatinib in pure, pharmaceutical preparation, human plasma, and human urine.

The following paper represents a simple, highly sensitive, responsive validated and developed spectrofluorimetric method for estimation of imatinib (IMB) in its pure, commercial preparation, human urine and human blood plasma. The calibration curve was in the range 4-900 ng ml for pure form and urine and 8-900 ng ml for plasma in a medium contains carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and acetate buffer (pH 5) with excitation wavelength (λ ) 230 nm and emission wavelength (λ ) 307 nm. The limit of detection (LOD) was 0.37 ng ml for the pure form, 0.64 ng ml for human urine, and 0.70 ng ml for human plasma, while the limit of quantitation (LOQ) was 1.2 for pure form, 1.91 for urine and 2.1 for plasma. The suggested method was successfully applied for evaluation of IMB in tablets within 99% mean percentage recovery. The excipients that are usually used as additives in pharmaceutical dosage form did not interfere with the suggested method. The method was efficiently used for estimation of IMB in human urine and human plasma. The effect of some cations that might be present in urine and plasma was also studied. The method was also focused on human volunteers and in vitro drug release.