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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2018

A Practical Quality Control Method for Saponins Without UV Absorption by UPLC-QDA.

Manjia Zhao, Yuntao Dai, Qi Li, Pengyue Li, Xue-Mei Qin, Shilin Chen

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Manjia ZhaoInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yuntao DaiInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Qi LiInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Pengyue LiInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xue-Mei QinModern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
Shilin ChenInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNShanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Saponins are a class of important active ingredients. Analysis of saponin-containing herbal medicines is a major challenge for the quality control of medicinal herbs in companies. Taking the medicine Astragali radix (AR) as an example, it has been shown that the existing evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) methods of astragaloside IV (AG IV) has the disadvantages of time-consuming sample preparation and low sensitivity. The universality of ELSD results in an inapplicable fingerprint with huge signals from primary compounds and smaller signals from saponins. The purpose of this study was to provide a practical and comprehensive method for the quality control of the astragalosides in AR. A simple sample preparation method with sonication extraction and ammonia hydrolyzation was established, which shortens the preparation time from around 2 days to less than 2 h. A UPLC-QDA method with the SIM mode was established for the quantification of AG IV in AR. Methanol extract was subjected to UPLC-QDA for fingerprinting analysis, and the common peaks were assigned simultaneously with the QDA. The results showed that with the newly established method, the preparation time for a set of samples was less than 90 min. The fingerprints can simultaneously detect both saponins and flavonoids in AR. This simple, rapid, and comprehensive UPLC-QDA method is suitable for quality assessment of RA and its products in companies, and also provides references for the quality control of other saponin ingredients without UV absorption.

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astragaloside IVAstragalus membranaceusfingerprintsaponinsUPLC-QDA

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