Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules24030512
Keywords
pharmacokinetics; tissue distribution; ginger; gingerols; shogaols; UPLC-Q-Exactive-HRMS
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81473368]
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Respiratory Disease Diagnosis and Treatment & Chinese Medicine Development of Henan Province
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Gingerols and shogaols are recognized as active ingredients in ginger and exhibit diverse pharmacological activities. The preclinical pharmacokinetics and tissue distribution investigations of gingerols and shogaols in rats remain less explored, especially for the simultaneous analysis of multi-components. In this study, a rapid, sensitive, selective, and reliable method using an Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography Q-Exactive High-Resolution Mass Spectrometer (UPLC-Q-Exactive-HRMS) was established and validated for simultaneous determination of eight compounds, including 6-gingerol, 6-shogaol, 8-gingerol, 8-shogaol, 10-gingerol, 10-shogaol, Zingerone, and 6-isodehydrogingenone in plasma and tissues of rats. The analytes were separated on a Syncronis C18 column (100 x 2.1 mm, 1.7 mu m) using a gradient elution of acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid in water at a flow rate of 0.25 mL/min at 30 degrees C. The method was linear for each ingredient over the investigated range with all correlation coefficients greater than 0.9910. The lowest Lower Limit of quantitation (LLOQ) was 1.0 ng/mL. The intra-and inter-day precisions (Relative Standard Deviation, RSD%) were less than 12.2% and the accuracy (relative error, RE%) ranged from 8.7% to 8.7%. Extraction recovery was 91.4-107.4% and the matrix effect was 86.3-113.4%. The validated method was successfully applied to investigate the pharmacokinetics and tissue distribution of eight components after oral administration of ginger extract to rats. These results provide useful information about the pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of the multi-component bioactive ingredients of ginger in rats and will contribute to clinical practice and the evaluation of the safety of a Chinese herbal medicine.
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