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Abstract

New high-performance liquid chromatography-dad method for analytical determination of arbutin and hydroquinone in rat plasma

Author(s): FR Gallo1, G Pagliuca1, G Multari1, G Panzini2, E Damore2, I Altieri3
1Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy 2Service for Biotechnology and Animal Welfare, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy 3Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy

Correspondence Address:
G Pagliuca Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome Italy E-mail: giordana.pagliuca@uniroma1.it


Natural substances present in herbal preparations should be carefully used because they can give toxic or therapeutic effects despite of their amount or the way of administration. The safety of products of vegetable origin must be assessed before commercialisation by monitoring the active ingredients and their metabolites. This study was therefore designed to identify and quantify arbutin and its metabolite hydroquinone, naturally present in Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng plant in rat plasma, after an acute and subacute administration of aqueous arbutin solution in Wistar rats. For this purpose a reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with photodiode array detection was developed to assess the pharmacokinetic of arbutin and hydroquinone in plasma of female rats treated with aqueous arbutin solutions. The detection (arbutin: 0.0617 µg/ml and hydroquinone 0.0120 µg/ml) and quantification (arbutin: 0.2060 µg/ml and hydroquinone: 0.0400 µg/ml) limits were determined. At the arbutin concentration level of 10.7 µg/ml repeatability was 13.33% and its recovery 93.4±6.93%, while at the hydroquinone concentration level of 10.6 µg/ml repeatability was 11.66% and its recovery 92.9±7.75%. Furthermore the method was fully validated and the obtained data indicate that the new method provides good performances.

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