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This paper describes a kinetic spectrophotometric method for simultaneous determination of three cephalosporin antibiotics, cephradine, cefaclor and cefixime, with the aid of chemometrics. The method relies on their oxidation with KMnO4 to produce green manganate with different kinetic rates in alkaline medium. The proposed method was successfully applied to a pharmacokinetic study of three cephalosporin antibiotics in rabbit plasma via intravenous injections. The results indicated that the amount of cephradine, cefaclor and cefixime were reduced rapidly in rabbit blood, showing clear dose-dependency and the half-life of cefixime (160 min) was longer than those of cephradine (60 min) and cefaclor (60 min).
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Ni, Y., Chen, J. & Kokot, S. Investigation of the pharmacokinetics and determination of certain cephalosporins in rabbit plasma by a kinetic spectrophotometric method with the aid of chemometrics. Sci. China Chem. 54, 827–834 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-010-4125-6
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