Rapid and Sensitive Determination of Timosaponin AIII in Rat Plasma by LC-MS/MS and Its Pharmacokinetic Application |
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| Authors: | Yanping Liu Yiqiong Pu Tong Zhang Yue Ding Bing Wang Zhenzhen Cai |
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| Affiliation: | 1.School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; E-Mail: ;2.Experiment Center for Teaching and Learning, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; E-Mails: (Y.P.); (B.W.); (Z.C.) |
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| Abstract: | A rapid sensitive and selective liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed for determination of timosaponin AIII (TA-III) in rat plasma, using ginsenoside Re as an internal standard (IS). TA-III and the IS were detected in MRM mode with a negative ionization electrospray mass spectrometer. The calibration curves were linear over the concentration ranges from 11.14 to 1114 ng/mL and the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) was 11.14 ng/mL. Intra-day and inter-day precisions (RSD) were within 10%, and accuracy ranged from 6.4% to 9.1%. The extraction recovery at three concentrations ranged from 92.3% to 95.5%. The validated method was successfully applied to monitor the concentrations of TA-III in rat plasma after intragastric administration. The best fit pharmacokinetic model to estimate the pharmacokinetic parameters was a single compartment model with weight of 1/x2 for oral administration groups of rats for TA-III. |
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| Keywords: | timosaponin AIII LC-MS/MS rat plasma pharmacokinetic study |
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