likviriton and naringenin

A liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed for the simultaneous determination of naringin, hesperidin, neohesperidin, naringenin and hesperetin in rat plasma, using liquiritin as the internal standard. Plasma samples extracted with a solid-phase extraction procedure were separated on a Zorbax SB-C18 analytical column (2.1 mm × 150 mm, 5 μm) and detected by electrospray ionization (ESI) in multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. The calibration curves were linear over the range of 3.0-600 ng/ml for naringin, 0.5-100 ng/ml for hesperidin, 3.5-700 ng/ml for neohesperidin, 5.0-1000 ng/ml for naringenin and hesperetin, respectively. The lower limits of quantification were 0.5 ng/ml for naringin, hesperidin, naringenin and hesperetin, and 0.35 ng/ml for neohesperidin. Intra- and inter-day precision (RSD%) was less than 15% and accuracy (RE%) ranged from -3.3% to 4.8%. The validated method was successfully applied to investigate the pharmacokinetics of the major flavanones of Fructus aurantii extract after oral administration to rats.

Topics: Animals; Chromatography, Liquid; Flavanones; Fruit; Glucosides; Hesperidin; Male; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Reference Standards; Solid Phase Extraction; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization; Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Sinisan is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in treating various diseases; however, the in vivo metabolic profile of its multiple components remains unknown. In this paper, ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF/MS) was applied to identify the metabolites of Sinisan extract in rat plasma, urine, feces and bile after intragastric administration. Using MS(E) and mass defect filter techniques, 41 metabolites of 10 parent compounds (naringin, naringenin, hesperidin, neohesperidin, liquiritin, liquiritigenin, glycyrrhizic acid, glycyrrhetinic acid, saikosaponin a and saikosaponin d) were detected and tentatively identified. It was shown by our results that these compounds was metabolized to the forms of hydroxylation, glucuronidation, sulfation, glucuronidation with sulfation and glucuronidation with hydroxylation in vivo.

Topics: Administration, Oral; Animals; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Flavanones; Glucosides; Glycyrrhizic Acid; Hesperidin; Hydroxylation; Male; Plants, Medicinal; Random Allocation; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization