hydroxysafflor-yellow-a and ferulic-acid

Topics: Administration, Intravenous; Animals; Chalcone; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Coumaric Acids; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Glucosides; Limit of Detection; Linear Models; Male; Monoterpenes; Quinones; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Reproducibility of Results; Tandem Mass Spectrometry

We aimed to detect optimal ratio of cardioprotection-dependent absorbed bioactive compounds (ABCs) as quality control of guan-xin-er-hao (GXEH) formula extracted by various processings.. Ferulic acid (F), tanshinol (T), hydroxysafflor yellow A (A), protocatechualdehyde (P) and paeoniflorin (E) in GXEH formula and FTA in blood from rat with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were first identified by HPLC-MS/MS, and FTAPE in GXEH formulae with various herbs, extraction times and extraction water volumes were then quantitated only by HPLC.. FTAPE in various GXEH were determined. FTA were selected as GXEH's ABCs. Ratios of FTA were determined, suggesting the high (1:6.1:15.6), medium (1:1.7:15.2) and low (1:0.2:15.3) ratios. Three FTA ratios and their parent formulae ratio-dependently reduced infarct size, myocardial apoptosis and caspase-3 activity.. There is the optimal ratio of F:T:A among various formulae, contributing to the best cardioprotection. This FTA ratio was developed as quality control of GXEH formula.

Topics: Animals; Apoptosis; Benzaldehydes; Benzoates; Bridged-Ring Compounds; Cardiotonic Agents; Caspase 3; Catechols; Chalcone; Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; Coumaric Acids; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Ethnopharmacology; Glucosides; Male; Monoterpenes; Myocardial Infarction; Phytotherapy; Quality Control; Quinones; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

To establish the method for the quality control of Xuefuzhuyu granule.. The content of Semen Armeniacae Amarum PE, Hydroxysafflor yellow A, paeoniflorin and ferulic acid in Xuefuzhuyu granule were determined by HPLC under multi-wavelength of 210, 403, 230, 316 nm.. The calibration curve of Semen Armeniacae Amarum PE. hydroxysafflor yellow A, paeoniflorin and ferulic acid were linear within 0.1154-0.9232 (r = 0.9998), 0.0219-0.1754 (r = 0.9994), 0.3952-3.1616 (r = 0.9995), and 0.0426-0.3408 microg (r = 0.9998), respectively. The average recoveries were 101.78% (RSD was 1.7%), 99.60% (RSD was 2.9%), 98.90% (RSD was 2.0%), and 100.31% (RSD was 1.8%), respectively.. The method of quantification is accurate, rapid and reliable for the quality control of Xuefuzhuyu granule.

Topics: Benzoates; Bridged-Ring Compounds; Chalcone; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Coumaric Acids; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Glucosides; Monoterpenes; Quinones; Reproducibility of Results

We have used microarray technology to detect the effect of Guanxin No.2 decoction on gene expression in different areas of the myocardial infarcted heart of rats.. Male Sprague-Dawley rats (180-200 g) were randomly divided into three groups: sham-operated; coronary artery ligation; and coronary artery ligation plus administration of Guanxin No.2 decoction (10.0 g raw materials/kg per day by gavage). The experiment was carried out on day seven after ligation.. We found that the gene expression using microarray technology showed many differences in the border infarcted left ventricular area compared with the remote noninfarcted left ventricular area after administration of Guanxin No.2 decoction.. Guanxin No.2 decoction has a long history in treating ischaemic cardiomyopathy in China, but the molecular mechanism has been unclear. In this study we found that some important genes may have contributed to the cardioprotective effect of Guanxin No.2 decoction.

Topics: Animals; Benzaldehydes; Benzoates; Benzofurans; Bridged-Ring Compounds; Cardiotonic Agents; Carthamus tinctorius; Catechols; Chalcone; Coumaric Acids; Dalbergia; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Gene Expression; Gene Expression Profiling; Glucosides; Heart Ventricles; Hydroxybenzoates; Lactates; Ligusticum; Male; Monoterpenes; Myocardial Infarction; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Paeonia; Plant Extracts; Quinones; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Salvia miltiorrhiza

A simple, rapid and accurate HPLC method has been developed for simultaneous determination of hydroxysafflor yellow A and ferulic acid in rat plasma after oral administration of the co-extractum of Rhizoma chuanxiong and Flos Carthami. Plasma samples were deproteinized with 6% perchloric acid, and riboflavin was used as internal standard. The supernatant after centrifuge was injected into a Shimadzu C(18) (150 x 4.6 mm, i.d. 5 microm) column. Gradient elution for A:B (0 min, 90:10; 25 min, 70:30; 27 min, stop) was applied. The mobile phase was composed of 0.022 mol/L potassium dihydrogen phosphate solutions, adjusted to pH 3.0 with phosphoric acid for pump A, and 90% (v/v) acetonitrile for pump B. The assay was shown to be linear over the range 0.046-4.6 microg/mL (r(2) = 0.9995) for hydroxysafflor yellow A and 0.037-3.7 microg/mL (r(2) = 0.9998) for ferulic acid. Mean recovery was 97.5% for hydroxysafflor yellow A and 83.6% for ferulic acid. Both of the intra-day and inter-day precisions were

Topics: Administration, Oral; Animals; Calibration; Chalcone; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Coumaric Acids; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Quinones; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Reference Standards; Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet

In this study the traditional Chinese medicine compound recipe (TCMCR) Shuxiong sustained-release capsules (SXSRC) were prepared by multiparticulate time-controlled explosion technology. First, Shuxiong pellets were prepared with the refined medicinal materials containing in the recipe of Shuxiong tablets. Then, the pellets were coated sequentially with an inner swelling layer containing low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose as the swelling agent and an outer rupturable layer of ethylcellulose. Finally, SXSRC were developed by encapsulating five kinds of pellets whose respective coating level of outer layer was 0%, 9%, 15%, 18% and 20% at equivalent ratio in hard gelatin capsules. Under the simulated gastrointestinal pH conditions, the in vitro release test of SXSRC was carried out. The value of similarity factor (f2) of hydroxysafflor yellow A and Panax notoginseng saponins, hydroxysafflor yellow A and ferulic acid, Panax notoginseng saponins and ferulic acid was 90.1, 77.3, 87.0, respectively. The release profiles of these three compositions from SXSRC showed a characteristic of obvious sustained-release and no significant difference between them. The results indicated that using multiparticulate time-controlled explosion technology various components in TCMCR with vastly different physicochemical properties could be released synchronously while sustained-releasing. That complies with the organic whole conception of compound compatibility of TCMCR.

Topics: Capsules; Carthamus; Cellulose; Chalcone; Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; Coumaric Acids; Delayed-Action Preparations; Drug Compounding; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Excipients; Ligusticum; Panax notoginseng; Quinones; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Solubility; Solutions; Tablets, Enteric-Coated