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Quantitative Analysis of Two Isoflavones in Pueraria Lobata Flowers From Eleven Chinese Provinces Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Quantitative Analysis of Two Isoflavones in Pueraria Lobata Flowers From Eleven Chinese Provinces Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Meicun Yao, Yiting Liao, George Q Li, Francis Cp Law, Yi Tang

Chin Med. 2010 Apr 23;5:14.

PMID: 20416072

Abstract:

Background:
Pueraria lobata flower (Gehua) is a medicinal herb to treat intoxication, hepatic and gastrointestinal tract lesion induced by alcohol. This study aims to develop a new HPLC method for the determination of two major isoflavones in P. lobata flowers, namely tectoridin and 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin.
Methods:
A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with a C18 column (250 mm x 4.6 mm, 5 mum) was developed for the quantitative analysis of tectoridin and 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin, the main isoflavone components in P. lobata flower. A simple gradient of acetonitrile/water (0 min 15:85; 35 min 50:50; 36 min 15:85; 40 min 15:85; v/v) was used, and 265 nm was selected as detection wavelength. Tectoridin and 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin were used as the external standards in quality control of P. lobata flower for the first time. The method was applied to practical use in quality assessment of eleven batches of P. lobata flower samples in Chinese herbal medicine market.
Results:
The peak area response was linear for tectoridin in the 11.8-236.4 mug/mL range with a correlation coefficient of 0.9996 (P < 0.001), and for 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin in the 10.33-185.99 mug/mL range with a correlation coefficient of 0.9984 (P < 0.001) respectively. The average recoveries were 102.7-103.7% for tectoridin and 95.7-103.2% for 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin (RSDs < 3%), and the intra-day and inter-day RSDs of the two components were less than 2%. This HPLC method was applied to assess the quality of P. lobata flower from eleven provinces in China. P. lobata flowers from northern China contained 26.46-43.28 mg/g of tectoridin and 30.90-48.23 mg/g of 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin comparing to 10.00-19.81 mg/g of tectoridin and 11.08-37.03 mg/g of 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin in those from southern China.
Conclusion:
The results showed that P. lobata flowers from northern China contained more tectoridin and 6"-O-xylosyl-tectoridin than those from southern China.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP611405	Tectoridin		611-40-5	Price

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