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Simultaneous quantification of three isoflavonoid glycosides in rabbit plasma after oral administration of Astragalus mongholicus extract by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.

Zhang X, Sun YG, Cheng MC, Wang YQ, Xiao HB, Liang XM

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, PR China.

A selective and sensitive liquid chromatography coupled with triple stage quadruple tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/TSQ-MS/MS) was developed and validated for simultaneous quantification of calycosin-7-O-beta-D-glycoside (CCSG), formononetin-7-O-beta-D-glycoside (Ononin) and (6R,10R)-9,10-dimethoxypterocarpan-3-O-beta-D-glycoside (DPG) in rabbit plasma. Plasma samples were extracted with solid-phase extraction (SPE), separated on an Inertsil ODS-3 column and detected by tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (ESI) interface in positive selective reaction monitoring (SRM) mode. 3,7,8-Trimethoxy-xanthone-1-O-primaverose was used as internal standard (IS) for quantitative measurement. For each analyte, one major product ion was chosen and used for screening of it. Calibration curves were generated over the range of 2-1000 ng mL(-1) with the correlation coefficients greater than 0.99 by using a weighted (1/chi) least squares linear regression. The method had the lower limit quantification of 0.15, 0.21 and 0.19 for CCSG, Ononin and DPG, respectively, with precision less than 20%. The intra- and inter-day precisions ranged from 2.48 to 6.38% and 4.81 to 11.78% (R.S.D.%), respectively. This assay is suitable for determining the above three trace glycosides in rabbit plasma simultaneously and thus investigating the pharmacokinetics of glycosides from Astragalus mongholicus extract in rabbits.

Published 15 October 2007 in Anal Chim Acta, 602(2): 252-8.
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