title: Determination and Pharmacokinetic Comparisons of Atractylodin after Oral Administration of Crude and Processed Atractylodis rhizoma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In traditional Chinese medicine, Atractylodis rhizoma is the dried rhizome of Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC. or Atractylodes chinensis (DC.) Koidz. After being processed, the dryness of A. rhizoma decreased, and the function of tonifying spleen increased. Therefore, the processed A. rhizoma is the best choice of clinical application. As the main active components, polyethylene alkynes exhibits various desirable pharmacological effects including anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and anti-arrhythmia activity. However, there is no report on the pharmacokinetic comparisons of atractylodin, one of polyethylene alkynes, in bio-samples after oral administration of crude and processed A. rhizoma until now. The in vivo study of active components of A. rhizoma would be necessary and helpful for clinical application and clarification of processing principle.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To compare the pharmacokinetic parameters of atractylodin after oral administration of crude and processed A. rhizoma, and clarify the processing principle of A. rhizoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Plasma concentrations of atractylodin in rats were determined by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatogram and the main pharmacokinetic parameters were estimated with Drug and Statistics 2.0 Software Package (Chinese Pharmacological Society, Shanghai, China).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The AUC0-t, AUC0→∞, Tmax, and Cmax of processed A. rhizoma were increased significantly (P < 0.05) compared with that in crude A. rhizoma after using Student's t-test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Processing A. rhizoma with wheat bran by stir-frying can promote and accelerate the absorption of atractylodin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this paper, a RP-HPLC method with UV detection for quantification of atractylodin (a main active component in Atractylodis Rhizoma) in rat plasma has been developed and applied to a preliminary pharmacokinetic study of atractylodin after oral administration of crude and processed Atractylodis Rhizoma respectively. The result indicates that processing Atractylodis Rhizoma with wheat-bran can promote and accelerate the absorption of atractylodin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dalian 116600, China.
authors.forename: Chang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiao-Wen
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dalian 116600, China.
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen-Xi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dalian 116600, China.
authors.forename: Liu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu-Qiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dalian 116600, China.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cai
keywords: Atractylodin; Atractylodis rhizoma; crude and processed; pharmacokinetics; polyethylene alkynes