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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 3.
Published in final edited form as: Biomed Chromatogr. 2013 Mar 12;27(8):994–1002. doi: 10.1002/bmc.2893

Table 4.

Freeze–thaw stability for 5-FU and MTX in mouse plasma and brain samples

Biological matrix Theoretical (ng/mL) RE%a (4 h) RE% (22 h)
MTX 5-FU MTX 5-FU
Plasma 31.3 −4.0 −11.2 −2.0 −26.6
125 −16.2 −25.1 3.0 −5.6
500 −0.7 −10.5 −6.4 −3.0
Brain 31.3 15.9 −13.1 7.2 21.3
125 21.2 −8.4 1.5 −7.1
500 −15.0 −0.3 −3.9 −1.3
a

Percentage relative error (RE %) = [(mean observed − theoretical value)/theoretical value] × 100.