著者

崎谷 陽子 赤田 良信 河野 貞子 宮内 芳子

出版者

公益社団法人日本薬学会

雑誌

Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin (ISSN:00092363)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.5, pp.1125-1129, 1979-05-25

被引用文献数

9

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A method was established by which glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid present in plasma can be extracted with methanol and then separated and determined quantitatively within 10 min by means of high-speed liquid chromatography. Using this method, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid added to the plasma were recovered to satisfactory extents. An in situ recirculating perfusion technique showed that G is absorbed in rat small intestine in an apparent first-order process. There was no detectable amount of glycyrrhetinic acid in the blood after bolus injection of glycyrrhizin into the portal vein, althouth glycyrrhetinic acid was present in a detectable amount in the blood after oral administration. Since it is water-soluble and has a high molecular weight, glycyrrhizin is probably absorbed in the small intestine in the form of glycyrrhetinic acid. With the decline of glycyrrhetinic acid in the blood, there was a rise in the blood level of a substance which exhibited the same chromatographic behavior as glycyrrhizin. This substance appears to be a glucuronic acid conjugate formed as a metabolite of glycyrrhetinic acid, although it is not clear whether it is a mono-or diglucuronic acid conjugate or a mixture of the two. Glycyrrhizin injected into the portal vein was eliminated from the blood only slowly.