title: A vascular smooth muscle/cell membrane chromatography-offline-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method for recognition, separation and identification of active components from traditional Chinese medicines.
abstract: We describe an analytical method of vascular smooth muscle cell membrane chromatography (VSM/CMC) combined with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) for recognition, separation and identification of active components from traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs). VSM cells by means of primary culture with rat thoracic aortas were used for preparation of the stationary phase in the CMC model. Retention components by the VSM-CMC model were collected and then analyzed by GC/MS under the optimized conditions in offline conditions. After investigating the suitability and reliability of the VSM/CMC-offline-GC/MS method using nifedipine and nitrendipine as standard compounds, this method was applied in screening active components from the extracts of TCMs such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae (RAD), Rhizomza Seu Radix Notopterygii (RSRN), Radix Glehniae (RG) and Fructus Cnidii (FC). Retention components from the extracts in the VSM-CMC model were imperatorin and osthole identified by the GC/MS method. In vitro pharmacological trials indicated that imperatorin and osthole could concentration dependently relax the rat thoracic artery pre-contracted by KCl (P<0.05). The maximum relaxation effects (R(max)) were 63+/-5% and 40+/-6% for imperatorin and osthole, respectively. The VSM/CMC-offline-GC/MS method is an effective screening system that can rapidly detect and enrich target components from a complex sample and then accurately identify them.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 76 Yanta West Road, Xi'an 710061, Shaanxi, China.
authors.forename: Xiaofang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Mingzhe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Qiao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Sicen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Langchong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002845:Chromatography / Q000379:methods*; D003374:Coumarins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000494:pharmacology; D011564:Furocoumarins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D009126:Muscle Relaxation / Q000187:drug effects; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D009543:Nifedipine / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers; D003374:Coumarins; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D011564:Furocoumarins; D009543:Nifedipine; C031534:imperatorin; C046627:osthol