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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Quality Evaluation of Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex by Fingerprint⁻Chemical Pattern Recognition.

Xuexiao Cao, Lili Sun, Di Li, Guangjiao You, Meng Wang, Xiaoliang Ren

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Phellodendri Cortex: A Phytochemical, Pharmacological, and Pharmacokinetic Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Xuexiao CaoSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. xuehen.3@163.com.
Lili SunSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. 18322050489@163.com.
Di LiSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. 18222042511@163.com.
Guangjiao YouSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. guangjiao_you@163.com.
Meng WangTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. wangmeng@tjutcm.edu.cn.
Xiaoliang RenSchool of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. renxiaoliang@tjutcm.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-4246-7883

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China No.81774149National standardization project of traditional Chinese Medicine No. ZYBZH-C-JS-29
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex (PCC) and Phellodendri Amurensis Cortex (PAC) are increasingly being used as traditional herbal medicines, but they are often mistaken for each other. In this study, the fingerprints of PCC from six different geographical sources were obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography, and multivariate chemometric methods were used for comprehensive analysis. Two unsupervised pattern recognition models (principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis) and a supervised pattern recognition model (partial least squares discriminant analysis) were established on the basis of the chemical composition and physical traits of PCC and PAC. PCC and PAC were found to be distinguishable by these methods. The PCC category was divisible into two categories, one with more crude cork and a maximum thickness of ~1.5 mm, and the other with less net crude cork and a maximum thickness of 0.5 mm. According to the model established by partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), the important chemical marker berberine hydrochloride was obtained and analyzed quantitatively. From these results combined with chemometric and content analyses, the preliminary classification standards for phellodendron were established as three grades: superior, first-order and mixed. Compared with the traditional identification methods of thin layer chromatography identification and microscopic identification, our method for quality evaluation is relatively simple. It provides a basis and reference for identification of PCC and enables establishment of grade standards. It also could be applied in quality control for compound preparations containing PCC.

Indexed as

Principal Component AnalysisBerberineChromatography, High Pressure LiquidCluster AnalysisDiscriminant AnalysisDrugs, Chinese HerbalGeographyLeast-Squares AnalysisPhellodendronBerberineDrugs, Chinese Herbalchemical pattern recognitionfingerprintPhellodendri Amurensis Cortex (PAC)Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex (PCC)quality evaluation

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PMID30201911
PMCPMC6225206

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