RESEARCH ARTICLE


Application of Design of Experiment and Design Space (DOE-DS) Methodology for the HPLC Separation of Panax Notoginseng Saponins



Shengyun Dai, Bing Xu*, Gan Luo, Jianyu Li, Zhong Xue, Xinyuan Shi, Yanjiang Qiao*
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Key Laboratory of TCM-information Engineering of State Administration of TCM, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, 100102.


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* Address correspondence to these authors at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Key Laboratory of TCM-information Engineering of State Administration of TCM, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, 100102; E-mail: btcm@163.com, yjqiao@263.net


Abstract

Panax Notoginseng Saponins (PNS), extracted from the roots of the common TCM Panax notoginseng (Burk.) F.H.Chen, consist of notoginsenoside R1, ginsenoside Rg1, Re, Rb1, Rd and many other chemicals which haven’t been identified. Due to its popular pharmacological effects, it is of importance to control the quality. This study combines design of experiments and design space methodology to optimize the HPLC separation of PNS. Three common chromatographic parameters (i.e. the temperature, the initial proportion of acetonitrile and the gradient slope) were selected to construct a Box-Behnken design which consisted of 17 experiments. A quadratic model that was built from the experimental result was used to construct the design space. The optimal separation was predicted at temperature 20°C;, with a gradient starting at 15% of acetonitrile and a gradient slope of 0.55%/min. Accuracy profile approach was employed to validate the established HPLC method. The results clearly showed that quality by design methodology could be effectively applied to optimize the HPLC chromatographic conditions for the analysis of PNS.

Keywords: Panax notoginseng saponins, quality by design, design of experiments, design space, accuracy profile.