“…The HPLC procedures reported for determining phenobarbital require sample pre-treatments such as protein precipitation (Perry et al, 1992), solvent extraction (Ohmacht et al, 1991;Kuroda et al, 1996), solidphase extraction (Kuono et al, 1993;Moriyama et al, 1994), dialysis (Johansen et al, 1995), or the use of column-switching techniques (Lubda et al, 1996;Kouno et al, 1997). Special chromatographic columns which allow the direct injection of the physiological samples have also been proposed (Perry et al, 1992;Haginaka and Wakai, 1992;Nimura et al, 1995).…”