Plasma antipyrine half-life can be determined from urine data.

Antipyrine half-life has been determined from measurements of antipyrine concentrations in spontaneously voided urine specimens in eleven subjects, studied on a total of forty-seven different occasions while receiving no drugs, interferon or ketoconazole. Plasma and saliva half-lives show good intrasubject correlation. Plasma and urine half-lives show good intrasubject correlation provided total urine output is at least 1.1 l day-1. The range of intrasubject correlation coefficients for plasma and urinary half-lives was 0.76 to 0.98, with a median value of 0.85. Saliva and urine half-lives show good intrasubject correlation, with the range of intrasubject correlation coefficients from 0.74 to 0.98, and with a median value of 0.75. There is a small but consistent bias towards shorter urinary half-life estimates; this averaged 0.75 h for the plasma-urine studies and 0.192 h for the saliva-urine studies. There were parallel changes in antipyrine half-life estimated from plasma and urine for one of our subjects who received multiple doses of recombinant beta-interferon and had a 150% increase in antipyrine half-life over the study period.