title: Pharmacokinetics of osthole in rat plasma using high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: A simple high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed to study the pharmacokinetics of osthole in rat plasma. After addition of an internal standard (paeonol), plasma was deproteinized by acetonitrile for sample clean-up. The drugs were separated on a reversed-phase column and detected by UV absorption at 323 nm. Acetonitrile-water-diethylamine (50:50:0.1, v/v/v) (pH 3.0, adjusted with orthophosphoric acid) was used as the mobile phase. It was applied to the pharmacokinetic study of osthole in rats after a dose of 10 mg kg-1 by intravenous administration. A biphasic phenomenon with a rapid distribution followed by a slower elimination phase was observed from the plasma concentration-time curve.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Shih-Pai, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D000818:Animals; D019540:Area Under Curve; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003374:Coumarins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D006207:Half-Life; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000032:analysis; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D003374:Coumarins; D010936:Plant Extracts; C046627:osthol