Pharmacokinetic Study on Hyperoside in Beagle's Dogs

Abstract

ObjectiveTo develop and validate a simple, rapid, sensitive, and reproducible HPLC method for determination of hyperoside in plasma of dogs and for the subsequent pharmacokinetic (PK) study. MethodsAn accurate and reproducible HPLC-UV method was developed and validated for the determination of hyperoside in plasma of dogs, using kaempferol as internal standard. The plasma samples of dogs following ig administration of hyperoside were analyzed for the detection of quercetin after enzymatic hydrolysis treatment with combined β-glucuronidase and sulphatase. The analytes were separated on a Diamonsil C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm). The mobile phase consisted of methanol-buffer solution (0.1 mol/L NH4Ac + 0.3 mmol/L EDTA-Na2)-acetic acid (60:40:1) and was delivered at a flow rate of 1 mL/min. The UV detector was set at 370 nm and the column temperature was maintained at 35 °C. The sample injection volume was 20 μL. Data were collected and analyzed using the ANASTAR software. PK parameters were calculated with DAS software (2.0). ResultsLinear relationships were validated over the range of 0.01–1 μg/mL for hyperoside (r = 0.9997). The intra- and inter-day precision values for all samples were within 10.0%, and the accuracies of intra- and inter-day assays were within the range of 92.4%–102.4%. The validated method was successfully used to determine the hyperoside concentration in plasma of dogs for up to 12 h, after a single ig administration (25 mg/kg). The mean PK parameters for male and female dogs were as follows: Cmax (0.18 ± 0.05) and (0.16 ± 0.05) μg/mL, AUC0-∞ (0.79 ± 0.34) and (0.86 ± 0.27) μg/(mLh), t1/2(ka) (0.89 ± 0.41) and (0.88 ± 0.28) h, respectively. Statistical analysis on the PK of hyperoside in male and female groups showed that sex had no significant impact on the PK of hyperoside (P > 0.05). ConclusionThe method is able and sufficient to be used in drug PK studies of hyperoside.