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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 990-995Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2005.05.030
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HPLC; mitracarpus scaber; dermatophilus congolensis; triterpenic acids
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Oleanolic (OA) and ursolic acids (UA) were isolated for the first time from the alcoholic extract of Mitracarpus scaber possessing antimicrobial effects on Dermatophilus congolensis. These two triterpenic acids were also active (MIC 15 mu g/ml) on this causative agent of dermatophilosis in African animals. To quantify OA and UA in M. scaber, a new, simple and rapid high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method compatible with MS detection was developed and validated. The mobile phase acetonitrile:H2O (85:15, v/v) was pumped through a C18 octadecylsilyl silica column at a flow rate of 0.6 ml/min and the eluate was monitored at 215 nm. The calibration curves constructed between 0.5 and 10 mu g/ml showed linear relationships with good R-2 values. The developed method was precise and reproducible with relative standard deviations (RSD) for these two active constituents between 0.22-2.06% (intraday) and 1.61-3.72% (interday) for concentrations from 0.5 to 6 mu g/ml. Limits of detection and quantification were, respectively, 0.2 and 0.5 mu g/ml. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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