Simultaneous determination of five effective components in zanthozylum nitidum (Roxb) DC.f. fastuosum how ex Huang by RP-HPLC / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To develop a RP-HPLC method for simultaneous determination of magnoflorine, hesperidin, nitidine chloride, ethoxychelerythrine and toddaloactone in Zanthozylum nitidum (Roxb) DC.f. fastuosum How ex Huang. METHODS: The RP-HPLC system consisted of a Diamonsil C18 column (4.6 mm×250 mm, 5μm) with the mobile phase of acetonitrile solution-water solution (containing 0.2% phosphoric acid and 0.2% triethylamine) for gradient elution. DAD detector was used and the detection wave lengths were 273, 283 and 328 nm. The flow rate was 1.0 mL·min-1 and the column temperature was 30°C. For different constituents, external standard method was used with the peak area at the maximum absorption wavelength as the quantitative index. RESULTS: The liner ranges of magnoflorine, hesperidin, nitidine chloride, ethoxychelerythrine and toddaloactone were 0.0957-1.3391 μg (r=0.9995), 0.3189-2.1260 μg(r=0.9998),0.0397-0.2648 μg (r=0.9995), 0.1004-1.0040 μg(r=0.9999), and 0.1080-2.1600 μg (r=0.9999), respectively. The average recoveries (n=6) were 100.2%, 99.8%, 97.1%, 98.8% and 101.6% (n=6) Respectively. CONCLUSION: The method is accurate, simple, rapid, and reproducible for the determination of magnoflorine, hesperidin, nitidine chloride, ethoxychelerythrine and toddaloactone in Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb) DC.f. fastuosum How ex Huang. The determination result can be used as a reference for the reasonable medication, quality control and further study of Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb) DC.f. fastuosum How ex Huang.