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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 278-286Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpha.2021.03.008
Keywords
Rotundic acid; LC-QqQ-MS; MS; Bioavailability; Tissue distribution; Pharmacokinetics; Dose proportionality
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Funding
- CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences [2019-I2M-5-020]
- National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China [81503154]
- National Major Scientific and Technological Special Project for Significant New Drugs Development [2017ZX09101002-001-0 05]
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This study provides the first systematic elucidation of the absorption and distribution characteristics of Rotundic acid (RA) in rats, which can provide valuable information for the further development and evaluation of RA in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies.
Rotundic acid (RA), an ursane-type pentacyclic triterpene acid isolated from the dried barks of Ilex rotunda Thunb. (Aquifoliaceae), possesses diverse bioactivities. To further study its pharmacokinetics, a simple and sensitive liquid chromatography with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (LC-QqQ-MS/ MS) method was developed and validated to quantify RA concentration in rat plasma and tissue using etofesalamide as an internal standard (IS). Plasma and tissue samples were subjected to one-step protein precipitation. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18 column (4.6 mm x 50 mm, 5 mm) under gradient conditions with eluents of methanol:acetonitrile (1:1, V/ V) and 5 mM ammonium formate:methanol (9:1, V/V) at 0.5 mL/min. Multiple reaction monitoring transitions were performed at m/z 487.30 -> 437.30 for RA and m/z 256.10 -> 227.10 for IS in the negative mode. The developed LC-QqQ-MS/MS method exhibited good linearity (2-500 ng/mL) and was fully validated in accordance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration bioanalytical guidelines. Dose proportionality and bioavailability in rats were determined by comparing pharmacokinetic data after single oral (10, 20, and 40 mg/kg) and intravenous (10 mg/kg) administration of RA. Tissue distribution was studied following oral administration at 20 mg/kg. The results showed that the absolute bioavailability of RA after administration at different doses ranged from 16.1% to 19.4%. RA showed good dose proportionality over a dose range of 10-40 mg/kg. RA was rapidly absorbed in a dose-dependent manner and highly distributed in the liver. In conclusion, this study is the first to systematically elucidate the absorption and distribution characteristics of RA in rats, which can provide additional information for further development and evaluation of RA in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Xi'an Jiaotong University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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