PMID- 23174900 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130530 LR - 20211203 IS - 1420-3049 (Electronic) IS - 1420-3049 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 12 DP - 2012 Nov 22 TI - Influence of nonpolar substances on the extraction efficiency of six alkaloids in Zoagumhwan investigated by ultra performance liquid chromatography and photodiode array detection. PG - 13844-55 LID - 10.3390/molecules171213844 [doi] AB - A reverse phase ultra performance liquid chromatography and photodiode array (UPLC-PDA) detection method was established for the determination of six alkaloids in Zoagumhwan (ZGW), and further for investigating the influence of nonpolar substances on the extraction efficiency of these alkaloids. The method was based on a BEH C(18) (50 mm x 2.1 mm, 1.7 mum) column and mobile phase of aqueous phosphoric acid and acetonitrile including 0.05% buffer solution under gradient elution. ZGW samples of ZGW I, II, III and IV were obtained and prepared by pre-processing the crude materials of Coptidis rhizoma and Evodiae fructus using four technologies, namely direct water decoction, removal of nonpolar substances in Evodiae fructus by supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), removal of nonpolar substances in ZGW by SFE and removal of nonpolar substances in ZGW by steam distillation. The developed and validated UPLC-PDA method was precise, accurate and sensitive enough based on the facts that the six alkaloids showed good regression (r > 0.9998), the limit of detections and quantifications for six alkaloids were less than 28.8 and 94.5 ng/mL, respectively, and the recovery was in the range of 98.56%-103.24%. The sequence of the total contents of six alkaloids in these samples was ZGW II > ZGW IV > ZGW III > ZGW I. ZGW II, in which nonpolar substances, including essential oils, were firstly removed from Evodiae fructus by SFE, had the highest content of the total alkaloids, indicating that extraction efficiency of the total alkaloids could be remarkably increased after Evodiae fructus being extracted by SFE. FAU - Zhao, Yanling AU - Zhao Y AD - China Military Institute of Chinese Medicine, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, 100, the 4th Ring Road, Beijing 100039, China. FAU - Jia, Lei AU - Jia L FAU - Yang, Hongbo AU - Yang H FAU - Wang, Jiabo AU - Wang J FAU - Zhang, Ping AU - Zhang P FAU - Li, Ruisheng AU - Li R FAU - Gong, Man AU - Gong M FAU - Luo, Shengqiang AU - Luo S FAU - Liu, Shijing AU - Liu S FAU - Xiao, Xiaohe AU - Xiao X LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20121122 PL - Switzerland TA - Molecules JT - Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 100964009 RN - 0 (Alkaloids) RN - 0 (Drugs, Chinese Herbal) RN - 0 (Plant Oils) RN - CXS4LJR7EL (Coptidis rhizoma extract) SB - IM MH - *Alkaloids/chemistry/isolation & purification MH - Chromatography, Liquid MH - Coptis chinensis MH - Drugs, Chinese Herbal/*chemistry MH - Evodia/*chemistry MH - Plant Oils/chemistry PMC - PMC6268081 EDAT- 2012/11/24 06:00 MHDA- 2013/06/01 06:00 PMCR- 2012/11/22 CRDT- 2012/11/24 06:00 PHST- 2012/10/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/11/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/11/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/11/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/11/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/06/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/11/22 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - molecules171213844 [pii] AID - molecules-17-13844 [pii] AID - 10.3390/molecules171213844 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Molecules. 2012 Nov 22;17(12):13844-55. doi: 10.3390/molecules171213844.