High-performance liquid chromatographic method for simultaneous determination of hawthorn active components in rat plasma |
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Authors: | Qi Chang Min Zhu Zhong Zuo Moses Chow Walter K K Ho |
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Institution: | a School of Pharmacy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, PR China b Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Schering-Plough Research Institute, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA c Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, PR China |
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Abstract: | A simple HPLC method with photodiode-array (PDA) ultraviolet detection was developed for the simultaneous determination of four active polyphenol components of hawthorn (Crataegus), chlorogenic acid, epicatechin, hyperoside and isoquercitrin, in rat plasma. Following extraction from the plasma samples with ethyl acetate–methanol (2:1, v/v), these four compounds were successfully separated using a C18 column with a gradient elution of 5 and 25% acetonitrile in 25 mM phosphate buffer (pH 2.4). The flow-rate was set at 1 ml/min and the eluent was detected at 325 nm for chlorogenic acid, 278 nm for epicatechin, and 360 nm for both hyperoside and isoquercitrin. Narignin (0.82 μg) was used as the internal standard and was detected at 278 nm. The method is linear over the studied range of 0.16–40, 0.63–160, 0.13–32 and 0.13–30 μg/ml for chlorogenic acid, epicatechin, hyperoside and isoquercitrin, respectively. The correlation coefficient for each analyte was greater than 0.995. The intra-day and inter-day precision of the analysis was better than 4 and 7%, respectively. The extraction recoveries at low to high concentration were greater than 85% for both epicatechin and chlorogenic acid, and greater than 94% for both hyperoside and isoquercitrin. The detection limits were 0.04, 0.20, 0.03 and 0.03 μg/ml for chlorogenic acid, epicatechin, hyperoside and isoquercitrin. The developed method was used to analyze the plasma concentrations of the four analytes after the intravenous administration of hawthorn polyphenol extract to rats. |
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Keywords: | Chlorogenic acid Epicatechin Hyperoside Isoquercitrin Hawthorn |
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