Serum pharmacochemistry for tracking bioactive components by UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS combined chromatographic fingerprint for quality assessment of Sanziguben Granule.

To more reasonably and effectively control the quality of Sanziguben Granule, chromatographic fingerprinting and serum pharmacochemistry of this traditional Chinese medicine compound were performed. A comprehensive comparison and evaluation of 15 batches of Sanziguben Granule was successfully conducted by using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) fingerprint analysis. After administering a set amount of Sanziguben Granule orally to rats, blood samples were collected and tested 4 times at intervals of 30min, 1h, 2h, and 4h using UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS. The blood showed presence of gallic acid and corilagin indicating the pharmacological significance of these two chemical compounds. According to the result, above mentional chemical compounds were designated biomarkers for quality control of Sanziguben Granule. Therefore, a purposeful and efficient method for quality control of Sanziguben Granule was established in the present study.

LC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of ethyl gallate and its major metabolite in rat plasma.

A simple, rapid and sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated for the determination of ethyl gallate, a pharmacologically active constituent isolated from Lagerstroemia speciosa (Linn.) Pers. This method was used to examine the pharmacokinetics of ethyl gallate and its major metabolite gallic acid in rat plasma using propyl gallate as an internal standard. After precipitation of the plasma proteins with acetonitrile, the analytes were separated on a Zorbax SB-C(18) column (3.5 microm, 2.1 x 50 mm) with an isocratic mobile phase consisted of methanol-acetonitrile-10 mM ammonium acetate (10 : 25 : 65, v/v/v) containing 0.1% formic acid at a flow rate of 0.25 mL/min. The Agilent G6410A triple quadrupole LC/MS system was operated under the multiple-reaction monitoring mode using the electrospray ionization technique in negative mode. The lower limits of quantification of gallic acid and ethyl gallate of the method were 0.5 and 1.0 ng/mL. The intra-day and inter-day accuracy and precision of the assay were less than 8.0%. This method has been applied successfully to a pharmacokinetic study involving the intragastric administration of ethyl gallate to rats.