PMID- 23930008 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20130809 LR - 20211021 IS - 0973-1296 (Print) IS - 0976-4062 (Electronic) IS - 0973-1296 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 35 DP - 2013 Jul TI - Fingerprint analysis of Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves based on ultra performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detector combined with similarity analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis methods. PG - 238-43 LID - 10.4103/0973-1296.113277 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: A method for chemical fingerprint analysis of Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves was developed based on ultra performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detector (UPLC-PAD) combined with similarity analysis (SA) and hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA). MATERIALS AND METHODS: 10 batches of Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves samples were collected from different regions of China. UPLC-PAD was employed to collect chemical fingerprints of Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves. RESULTS: The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of the relative retention times (RRT) and relative peak areas (RPA) of 10 characteristic peaks (one of them was identified as rutin) in precision, repeatability and stability test were less than 3%, and the method of fingerprint analysis was validated to be suitable for the Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves. CONCLUSIONS: The chromatographic fingerprints showed abundant diversity of chemical constituents qualitatively in the 10 batches of Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves samples from different locations by similarity analysis on basis of calculating the correlation coefficients between each two fingerprints. Moreover, the HCA method clustered the samples into four classes, and the HCA dendrogram showed the close or distant relations among the 10 samples, which was consistent to the SA result to some extent. FAU - Liang, Xianrui AU - Liang X AD - Key Laboratory for Green Pharmaceutical Technologies and Related Equipment of Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China. FAU - Ma, Meiling AU - Ma M FAU - Su, Weike AU - Su W LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Pharmacogn Mag JT - Pharmacognosy magazine JID - 101300403 PMC - PMC3732427 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Fingerprint OT - Hibiscus mutabilis L. leaves OT - ultra performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detector COIS- Conflict of Interest: No. EDAT- 2013/08/10 06:00 MHDA- 2013/08/10 06:01 PMCR- 2013/07/01 CRDT- 2013/08/10 06:00 PHST- 2012/04/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/05/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/06/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/08/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/08/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/08/10 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2013/07/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PM-9-238 [pii] AID - 10.4103/0973-1296.113277 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Pharmacogn Mag. 2013 Jul;9(35):238-43. doi: 10.4103/0973-1296.113277.