Tissue metabolic changes for effects of pirfenidone in rats of acute paraquat poisoning by GC-MS.

We developed a metabolomic method to evaluate the effect of pirfenidone on rats with acute paraquat (PQ) poisoning, through the analysis of various tissues (lung, liver, kidney, and heart), by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Thirty-eight rats were randomly divided into a control group, an acute PQ (20 mg kg) poisoning group, a pirfenidone (20 mg kg) treatment group, and a pirfenidone (40 mg kg) treatment group. Partial least squares-discriminate analysis (PLS-DA) revealed metabolic alterations in rat tissue samples from the two pirfenidone treatment groups after acute PQ poisoning.

Effect of alprazolam on rat serum metabolic profiles.

We developed a serum metabolomic method by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to evaluate the effect of alprazolam in rats. The GC-MS with HP-5MS (0.25 μm × 30 m × 0.

Pharmacokinetic study of ardisiacrispin A in rat plasma after intravenous administration by UPLC-MS/MS.

In this work, a sensitive and selective UPLC-MS/MS method for determination of ardisiacrispin A in rat plasma was developed. Cyasterone used as an internal standard (IS) and protein precipitation by acetonitrile-methanol (9:1, v/v) was used to prepare samples. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a UPLC BEH C column (2.