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Intestinal absorption and presystemic elimination of various chemical constituents present in GBE50 extract, a standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba leaves.

Abstract：

:The nature and level of systemic exposure to the active herbal constituents will profoundly affect their effects at action sites, which is fundamental in understanding their roles in the overall beneficial effects of a herbal medicine. The objective of this study is to gain a full picture of the systemic exposure to various putatively active ginkgo constituents after p.o. administration of GBE50 extract, a standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba leaves, to rats and understanding of the relevant mechanisms governing the intestinal absorption and presystemic elimination. To define the ginkgo compounds to be studied, literature informatics-guided chemical profiling revealed that GBE50 extract contained 72 ginkgo constituents, including terpene lactones, flavonols, flavones, an isoflavone, biflavones, flavanols, and carboxylic acids, at levels ranging from 0.01 to 55.3 mg/g. Among the ginkgo constituent groups were the terpene lactones and the flavonols that were significantly measurable in plasma after p.o. administration of GBE50 extract to rats. The intestinal absorption of terpene lactones appeared to be dictated by their intermediate membrane permeability, while the influences of MDR-1- and MRP-2- mediated intestinal efflux and the presystemic metabolism and biliary excretion might be relatively limited. Because of their deglycosylation absent in the small intestine and relatively slow presystemic elimination, many intact flavonol glycosides appeared in the rat plasma albeit with a limited extent of absorption. Colonic deglycosylation of the flavonol glycosides occurred and the glucuronides of flavonol aglycones were also measured in the plasma. Although some biflavones also had relatively high abundance in GBE50 extract, these ginkgo constituents were not measured in the rat plasma because of their poor solubility and poor permeability that hindered the intestinal absorption. The levels of the remaining ginkgo constituents in GBE50 extract were too low to be measured in the rat plasma. The current study enabled us to better understand the nature of systemic exposure to ginkgo compounds after p.o. administration of GBE50 extract and to more precisely implement multicomponent PK study of the extract.

journal_name

Curr Drug Metab

journal_title

Current drug metabolism

authors

Li L,Zhao Y,Du F,Yang J,Xu F,Niu W,Ren Y,Li C

doi

10.2174/1389200211209050494

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-06-01 00:00:00

pages

494-509

issue

eissn

1389-2002

issn

1875-5453

pii

CDM-EPUB-20120118-004

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Intestinal absorption and presystemic elimination of various chemical constituents present in GBE50 extract, a standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba leaves.