Determination and pharmacokinetic study of catechin in rat plasma by HPLC
	    		
		   		
		   			
		   		
	    	
    	 
    	10.1016/j.jpha.2011.09.004
   		
        
        	
        	
        	
        		- Author:
	        		
		        		
		        		
			        		Li XIE
			        		
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			        		Xinnan LI
			        		
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			        		Dexi JIANG
			        		
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			        		Dan ZHANG
			        		
			        		
		        		
		        		
		        		
		        		
		        		
			        		
			        		
		        		
	        		
        		 
        	
        	
        	
        		- Publication Type:Journal Article
 
        	
        	
        		- Keywords:
        			
	        			
	        				
	        				
			        		
				        		HPLC;
			        		
			        		
			        		
				        		Determination;
			        		
			        		
			        		
				        		Pharmacokinetic;
			        		
			        		
			        		
				        		Catechin;
			        		
			        		
			        		
				        		Rat;
			        		
			        		
			        		
				        		Plasma
			        		
			        		
	        			
        			
        		
 
        	
            
            
            	- From:
	            		
	            			Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
	            		
	            		 2011;01(4):297-301
	            	
            	
 
            
            
            	- CountryChina
 
            
            
            	- Language:Chinese
 
            
            
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		        	Abstract:
			       	
			       		
				        
				        	A high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed and validated for the quantitative determination of catechin in rat plasma and its pharmacokinetic study after intragastric administration of Catechu and Xiongdanjiangre Wan into SD rats. Plasma samples were prepared by protein precipitation using methanol- 5% aqueous zinc sulfate (70:30, v/v) as precipitant. Chromatographic separation was achieved on Hypersil C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 10 μm) with acetonitrile water triethylamine (6:94:0.3, v/v/v, pH 4.0±0.1, adjusted with phosphoric acid) as mobile phase, followed by a UV detection at 207 nm. Good linearity was obtained over the range of 0.143-7.15 mg/L of catechin, with correlation coefficient of 0.9992.The method was simple, sensitive, accurate and reproducible and has been successfully applied to the pharmacokinetic study of catechin in rat plasma.