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Objective To establish a direct extraction ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of bongkrekic acid in corn flour. Methods Bongkrekic acid was directly extracted with 80% methanol from corn flour samples, and the supernatant after vortex and centrifugation was determined after passing through membrane filtration. At the same time, the corn flour samples were extracted by solid phase extraction. The determination results of the two methods were compared. Results The linearity of standard series was good within the range of2-20 μg/L, and the linearity coefficient was＞0.999. The determination result of the positive sample by direct extraction method was 193.40 mg/kg (n=6). Adding the standard to the blank sample at the levels of 2, 6, and 10 μg/L, the calculated recovery rate was 75.82% - 99.33%, and the relative standard deviation was 3.54 % - 8.45%. The detection limit of the method reached 6 μg/kg. After extraction by solid phase extraction, the determination result of the positive sample was 196.84 mg/kg (n=6). The recovery rate was 77.12% -100.83%, with a relative standard deviation of 8.32% - 9.54%. Conclusion Compared with the solid phase extraction, the direct extraction method for the extraction of bongkrekic acid from corn flour has the advantages of rapidity, simplicity, and cost savings.
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Objective: To establish a method for rapid determination of bongkrekic acid (BA) in plasma by high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). Methods: In November 2020, plasma samples were extracted by methanol and acetonitrile (1∶1) and purified directly. The samples were separated by C18 column. Gradient elution was carried out with 5 mmol/L ammonium acetate water acetonitrile solution as mobile phase. Under the optimized instrument conditions, the electrospray ionization multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode was used, and the external standard method was used for quantitative analysis. Results: The linear relationship of BA in plasma was good in the concentration range of 2-100 μg/L, the correlation coefficient was 0.9998, the average recovery was 83.7%-112.0%, the relative standard deviation within and between batches was less than 10%, the detection limit of the method was 0.7 μg/L and the lower limit of quantification was 2.0 μg/L. Conclusion: The method is simple, rapid, accurate and sensitive, and can meet the requirements for the determination of BA in blood samples of poisoning patients.
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Humans , Bongkrekic Acid , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Solid Phase Extraction , Tandem Mass SpectrometryABSTRACT
Objective@#To quickly determine bongkrekic acid（BKA）in plasma qualitatively and quantitatively by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry（LC-MS/MS）,and to provide technical support for etiological identification of food poisoning events.@*Methods@#The plasma sample was protein precipitated with acetonitrile,diluted with water and purified with anion exchange solid phase extraction cartridge of PAX. The sample extract was separated by an XBridgeTM BEH C18 chromatographic column. Gradient elution was conducted with the mobile phase of 0.01 %（v/v）ammonia and methanol. Then BKA was detected by LC-MS/MS. @*Results@#The equation of linear regression was y=16 509x+3 134.3. Good linear relationship was obtained for BKA at a range from 1 to 400 ng/mL in plasma,with the correlation coefficient of 0.999 3. The limit of detection（LOD）was 0.5 ng/mL and the limit of quantitation（LOQ）was 1 ng/mL. The average recoveries were 76.0%-96.7% with relative standard deviations（RSDs,n=6）of 5.2%-12.8% at three spiking levels of 1（LOQ）,10（10 times of LOQ）and 200 ng/mL（medium of linear range）. The concentrations of BKA in plasma obtained from two patients suffering from food poisoning were 394 and 92.3 ng/mL. @*Conclusion@#The optimized sample pretreatment and chromatographic separation conditions can achieve rapid,accurate,qualitative and quantitative analysis of BKA in plasma.