PMID- 33522207 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210907 LR - 20210907 IS - 2589-451X (Electronic) IS - 0255-2922 (Linking) VI - 41 IP - 1 DP - 2021 Feb TI - Relationship between cardiotonic activity of Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata) and its fingerprint determined by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. PG - 140-149 LID - 10.19852/j.cnki.jtcm.2021.01.016 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between the cardiotonic activity of Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, RALP) and its fingerprint determined by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). METHODS: First, the fingerprints of six processed products of RALP were established by high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HPLC-Q-TOF-MS) followed by analysis of the principal component of the relative peak area of its common peaks. Next, the scores of the first five principal components were used as input for an artificial neural network (ANN). Additionally, the therapeutic effect of RALP was assessed by measuring the hemodynamic indexes of heart failure model rats. Subsequently, fluorescence semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit were used to determine the effects of RALP-processed products on the serum levels of noradrenaline (NA), angiotensin-Ⅰ (Ang-Ⅰ), and the expression of beta-norepinephrine receptor mRNA (beta-NRm) in the rat cardiac tissues. P < 0.05 was used as the output of the ANN. Finally, a network was constructed to display the relationship between the LC-MS fingerprints and the cardiotonic activity of the RALP-processed products. RESULTS: Several types of RALPs can improve diastolic function, systolic function and heart rate. On the basis of the findings from the principal component analysis (PCA) of 16 common peaks of fingerprints of six RALP-processed products, it was revealed that the first five principal components may include 100% of the information of the original data. As observed from the multilayer perceptron neural network analysis, principal component 4 presented with the strongest effects on serum levels of NA and Ang-Ⅰ in rats, while principal component 1 exerted the greatest effect on beta-NRm expression in cardiac tissue. CONCLUSION: The key findings obtained from this study indicated that the network constructed by the PCA-ANN may predict pharmacodynamic effects of the main ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This method may serve as a new approach to identify the relationship between LC-MS fingerprints and the pharmacodynamic effects of TCM ingredients. FAU - Tong, Hengli AU - Tong H AD - School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. FAU - Zhu, Jing AU - Zhu J AD - School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. FAU - Gong, Feipeng AU - Gong F AD - Department of Orthopaedic, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, Nanchang 330006, China. FAU - Zhong, Lingyun AU - Zhong L AD - School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. FAU - Xu, Ting AU - Xu T AD - School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - China TA - J Tradit Chin Med JT - Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan JID - 8211546 RN - 0 (Cardiotonic Agents) RN - 0 (Drugs, Chinese Herbal) RN - 0 (Receptors, Adrenergic) RN - 11002-13-4 (Angiotensinogen) RN - X4W3ENH1CV (Norepinephrine) SB - IM MH - Aconitum/*chemistry MH - Angiotensinogen/genetics/metabolism MH - Animals MH - Cardiotonic Agents/administration & dosage/*chemistry MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Drugs, Chinese Herbal/administration & dosage/*chemistry MH - Heart Failure/*drug therapy/genetics/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Mass Spectrometry MH - Norepinephrine/genetics/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Receptors, Adrenergic/genetics/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - Artificial neural network OT - Chromatography, high pressure liquid OT - Ginger OT - Mass spectrometry OT - Principal component analysi OT - Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata EDAT- 2021/02/02 06:00 MHDA- 2021/09/08 06:00 CRDT- 2021/02/01 06:10 PHST- 2021/02/01 06:10 [entrez] PHST- 2021/02/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/09/08 06:00 [medline] AID - 3131 [pii] AID - 10.19852/j.cnki.jtcm.2021.01.016 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Tradit Chin Med. 2021 Feb;41(1):140-149. doi: 10.19852/j.cnki.jtcm.2021.01.016.