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Objective To explore the effective constituents from Sonchus arvensis L. and the potential mechanism in treating sepsis by network pharmacology. Methods The chemical ingredients reported in the literature were taken as research objects and Swiss Target Prediction database was used to collect the identify the potential targets of those ingredients. The GeneCards, OMIM and TTD databases were applied to screen the sepsis related molecular targets. The cross targets were obtained and used to construct the active ingredient-disease target network. In addition, the targets were also imported into STRING database to construct a PPI network. Finally, GO and KEGG enrichment analysis were performed on the target genes to predict the mechanism via DAVID database. Results 71 components from S. arvensis L. were obtained, which corresponded to 579 potential drug targets. There were 3437 related targets of sepsis. S. arvensis L. and sepsis shared 272 common targets. The results showed that 1366 terms were found by GO function enrichment, including 245 molecular functions (MF), 1002 biological processes (BP), and 119 cell composition (CC), The KEGG enrichment analysis suggested that 166 signaling pathways were involved. Conclusion The study revealed that TNF, AKT1, IL-6, IL-1β, TP53 and some other targets might be affected by potentially active ingredients of S arvensis L. such as linoleic acid, linolenic acid and oleic acid to regulate the expression of steroids, sphingolipids hormones as well as epidermal factors and chemokines in treating sepsis.
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Objective: To identify the similarities and differences of the main chemical constituents between Ixeris chinensis and Sonchus brachyotus by UHPLC-Q exactive orbitrap-HRMS. Methods: The analysis was performed on an Agilent Poroshell 120 reverse phase column (100 mm × 3 mm, 2.7 μm). The mobile phase consisted of methanol and 0. 5% acetic acid, which was used for gradient elution, and the flow rate was 0.3 mL/min. Q exactive orbitrap-HRMS spectrometry was applied for the qualitative analysis under positive and negative ion modes, and ESI ion source was used for mass spectra. Results: The results indicated that nine compounds from the ethanol extract of I. chinensis and ten compounds from the ethanol extract of S. brachyotus had been identified by direct comparison in both positive and negative ion mass data, the element compositions analysis, and the data of the literature. Among them, there were nine compounds are the same, which were seven organic acids and two flavonoids compounds. Conclusion: The efficient separation ability of UHPLC and high sensitive detection of MS were used in this study, which will provide the evidences for evaluating the quality of I. chinensis and S. brachyotus and stabilizing the curative effect in clinic.
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A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method using photodiode array detector with gradient elution has been developed and validated for the simultaneous estimation of ascorbic acid, free phenolic acids and flavonoids (catechin, rutin, quercetin, myrecetin, apigenin and Kaempferol) in four different solvent extracts of two wild edible leaves of viz. Sonchus arvensis and Oenanthe linearis, collected from North-eastern region in India . The chromatographic separation was carried out on Acclaim C 18 column (5 μm particle size,250 x 4.6 mm), Dionex Ultimate 3000 liquid chromatograph and detection was carried out at three different wave lengths (272, 280 and 310 nm) using a mobile phase of acetonitrile and 1% aqueous acetic acid solution with gradient elution. The experimental results showed high amount of ascorbic acid in S. arvensis and O. Linearis (1.2% and 2.3 % respectively) and gallic acid (0.02% and 0.06% respectively) in 1% aq. acetic acid extract of these two plants. The high percentage of recovery (96-103%), low coefficient of variation ( R2 > 0.99) and low limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ) confirm the suitability of the method for simultaneous quantification of ascorbic acid and all phenolic compounds in the two plants under investigation.