Min Meng, Benjamin Smith, Brad Johnston, Spencer Carter, Jerry Brisson, Sharin E Roth
Delamanid (OPC-67683) is a novel nitro-dihydroimidazo-oxazole derivative that is being developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan (referred to as Otsuka hereafter) for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). An ultra-high performance liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method has been developed and validated for the determination of OPC-67683 and its eight metabolites, DM-6704, DM-6705, DM-6706, DM-6717, DM-6718, DM-6720, DM-6721 and DM-6722 in human plasma to support regulated clinical development...
October 1, 2015: Journal of Chromatography. B, Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences