LC-MS/MS determination and pharmacokinetic study of bergenin, the main bioactive component of Bergenia purpurascens after oral administration in rats

作     者：Bao-Hong Li Jin-Dong Wu Xiang-Lu Li 

作者机构：School of PharmacyGuangdong Medical College Nature’s & US Limited Liability Corporation 

出 版 物：《Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis》 (药物分析学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第3卷第4期

页      面：229-234页

学科分类：1008[医学-中药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1006[医学-中西医结合] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Nos. 9151008018000003) 

主　　题：Bergenin Bergenia purpurascens Pharmacokinetics Rat plasma LC-MS/MS 

摘      要：Bergenin, a C-glucoside of 4-O-methyl gallic acid from Bergenia purpurascens, is a naturally antitussive and expectorant agent. A rapid and sensitive liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry （LC-MS/MS） method has been developed and validated for the determination of the active component--bergenin, in rat plasma after oral administration of aqueous B. purpurascens extract. The plasma samples were pretreated by protein precipitation with acetonitrile and chromatographic separation was achieved on a Diamonsil C18 column （150mim×4.6mm, 5μm） with isocratic elution using a mobile phase consisting of water- methanol （30：70, v/v） at a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. The detection was accomplished by a triple- quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer in multiple-reaction monitoring （MRM） scanning via an electrospray ionization （ESI） source operating in the negative mode. The optimized mass transition ion-pairs （m/z） for quantitation were 327.3/192.0 for bergenin, and 431.1/311.1 for IS. The time for each analysis run was only 3.5 min between injections. The calibration curve exhibited good linearity （r2〉 0.99） over a range of 1.00-2000 ng/mL for bergenin. The lower limit of quantitation （LLOQ） was 1.00ng/mL. The intra- and inter-day precisions were no more than 11.8%, and relative errors （RE） were within the range of 0.0-4.4%. The validated method was successfully applied to investigate the pharmacokinetics of bergenin after oral administration of B. purpurascens extract in rats.