title: [Resolution of carotenoid isomers in Lycium barbarum L. by heuristic evolving latent projection].
abstract: Lycium barbarum L., a kind of traditional Chinese herb, is found to have bioactivities such as anticancer, antioxidant, hypoglycemic and immunological activities. In both in vitro and in vivo studies, the carotenoids were found to be a class of the effective compounds. The carotenlysoids in Lycium barbarum L. were separated by high perforance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). Seven peaks were obtained by HPLC on a C18 column with acetonitrile-methylene chloride (60:40, v/v) as mobile phase at a flow-rate of 1.0 mL/min. Most of the peaks that had been validated as single peaks in the 2-dimensional chromatography were found to be overlapping peaks. The overlapping chromatographic peaks were resolved by chemometric method--Heuristic Evolving Latent Projection (HELP) based on 3-dimensional data. As an example, the chromatogram and UV spectra of 4 isomers were obtained by resolving an overlapping peak. These results showed that the combination of chemometric methods and modern analytical instruments provides an effective method for the analysis of complex systems such as isomers.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China. lu_hongmei225@126.com
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D002338:Carotenoids / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D007536:Isomerism; D032305:Lycium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002338:Carotenoids