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Planta Med 2012; 78(7): 740-746
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1298373
Analytical Studies
Original Papers
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Metabolic Profiling Assisted Quality Assessment of Rhodiola rosea Extracts by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

Zhanguo Wang1 , Huiling Hu2 , Fang Chen1 , Liang Zou3 , Mingfu Yang4 , Anqi Wang5 , James E. Foulsham6 , Ke Lan5
  • 1College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • 2College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • 3College of Biological Industry, Chengdu University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • 4Chengdu Wagott Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • 5Key Laboratory of Drug Targeting and Drug Delivery Systems, Ministry of Education, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
  • 6Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital & School of Medicine, Clinical Faculty, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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received Dec. 5, 2011 revised February 16, 2012

accepted February 22, 2012

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22 March 2012 (online)

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Abstract

In this work, fast and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with multivariate analysis was utilized to assist the quality assessment of Rhodiola rosea extracts (RREs). 131 peaks were separated and detected in RREs on a fused-core C18 column. Principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) of the chromatographic data demonstrated that 10 batches of RREs could be well-differentiated and categorized into three groups which were closely related to the origins of RREs. Partial least square-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) showed that the quality differentiation might be explained by at least 6 components, in which rosavin was characterized by an external reference, rosiridine was identified by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and the mass spectra of the others were provided. The observation that the level of rosavin was more relevant to the multivariate chromatographic data than the ones of salidroside and tyrosol, the other two components commonly used to standardize RREs, was confirmed by the PLS prediction models. Results of the present study not only indicated that rosavin was a rational marker to represent the quality of RREs, but also demonstrated the power of HPLC-based metabolic profiling in the quality assessment of herbal extracts.

Key words

metabolic profiling - Rhodiola rosea L. extracts - Crassulaceae family - quality assessment - high-performance liquid chromatography - fused-core column

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Prof. Fang Chen, Ph.D.

College of Life Sciences
Sichuan University No. 24 South Section 1

Yihuan Road, Chengdu

Sichuan 610065

China

Email: chenfang@scu.edu.cn

Dr. Ke Lan, Ph.D.

Key Laboratory of Drug Targeting and Drug Delivery Systems
Ministry of Education
West China School of Pharmacy
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