Qi She Pill(QSP)is a traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)prescription that has been used in treating cervical spondylosis radiculopathy for many years.In this study,a simple and sensitive method using ultra-high-performa...Qi She Pill(QSP)is a traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)prescription that has been used in treating cervical spondylosis radiculopathy for many years.In this study,a simple and sensitive method using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry(UHPLC–MS/MS)on a reverse-phase C18 column was developed for the simultaneous determination of the 19 major components in QSP.We found that the optimum mobile phase for gradient elution was 0.1% formic acid and methanol.The correlation coefficients of all calibration curves were greater than 0.99.Recoveries measured at three concentration levels varied from 95.43%to 102.35%.Relative standard deviations of intra-and inter-day precisions were less than 4.45%.After successfully validating our method,we then applied it to the quantification of 19 components in QSP products to show that this method provides a new standard in quality assessment of TCM prescriptions containing multiple bioactive components.展开更多
基金This research was supported by the Key Discipline of Shanghai City Board of Education(No.J50302)Higher Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program(No.20123107110007)+6 种基金Alliance Program-problem of bidding project(No.2012033)MOST“significant Drug Discovery”major science and technology“Twelve Five”Implementation Plan(2011ZX09302-006-04)Ministry of Education,“Innovative Research Team”(1RT1270)Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ministry(Education Technology(2009)98)Shanghai“most important”Clinical Center construction project,Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine“085 Project”class TCM Discipline Pro-ject“Boot Innovation Program”(085ZY1204)Shanghai Sci-ence and Technology Commission of modern medicine special(09dZ1977200)Shanghai university innovation team plans(Shanghai Branch Board of Education(2009)No.6).
文摘Qi She Pill(QSP)is a traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)prescription that has been used in treating cervical spondylosis radiculopathy for many years.In this study,a simple and sensitive method using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry(UHPLC–MS/MS)on a reverse-phase C18 column was developed for the simultaneous determination of the 19 major components in QSP.We found that the optimum mobile phase for gradient elution was 0.1% formic acid and methanol.The correlation coefficients of all calibration curves were greater than 0.99.Recoveries measured at three concentration levels varied from 95.43%to 102.35%.Relative standard deviations of intra-and inter-day precisions were less than 4.45%.After successfully validating our method,we then applied it to the quantification of 19 components in QSP products to show that this method provides a new standard in quality assessment of TCM prescriptions containing multiple bioactive components.
