pH-mediated molecular differentiation for fluorimetric quantification of chemotherapeutic drugs in human plasma [post]

Luis A Serrano, Ye Yang, Elisa Salvati, Francesco Stellacci, Silke Krol, Stefan Guldin
2017 unpublished
At present, drug dosage is based on standardised approaches that disregard pharmakokinetic differences between patients and lead to non-optimal efficacy and unnecessary side effects. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of pH-mediated fluorescence spectroscopy for therapeutic drug monitoring in complex media. We apply this principle to the simultaneous quantification of the chemotherapeutic prodrug Irinotecan and its active metabolite SN-38 from human plasma across the clinically relevant
more » ... concentration range, i.e. from micromolar to nanomolar at molar ratios of up to 30:1.
doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.5662462.v1 fatcat:k2uosnlncrc43eyc3err57kdpy