Quantification of Hypocrellin B in Rabbit Ocular Tissues/Plasma by Spectrofluorimeter: Application to Biodistribution Study

Title:Quantification of Hypocrellin B in Rabbit Ocular Tissues/Plasma by Spectrofluorimeter: Application to Biodistribution Study

Volume: 10 Issue: 4

Author(s): Venkateshwaran Krishnaswami, Chandrasekar Ponnusamy, Senthilkumar Sankareswaran, Muthuselvam Paulsamy, Rajaguru Palanisamy and Subramanian Natesan

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Keywords: Calibration, emission, excitation, eye, fluorimetric, hypocrellin B.

Abstract: A simple and sensitive red spectrofluorimetric method has been described for the estimation of hypocrellin B in rabbit plasma and ocular tissues such as retina, iris, aqueous humour and vitreous body. The fluorimetric estimation was achieved using black coloured 96- well plate at an excitation/emission wavelengths of 470/620 nm with a specific well volume of 100 µL/well. Hypocrellin B calibration curves were linear at a concentration ranging from 20 ng/mL to 1280 ng/mL with correlation coefficient between 0.86 and 0.99 in ocular tissues and plasma. Limit of detection and quantification was between 0.011 to 0.017 µg/mL and 0.034 to 0.054 g/mL respectively for hypocrellin B in different ocular tissues and plasma. The percentage relative standard deviation observed for the validation parameters such as method precision, system precision, intra- inter day, analyst to analyst variations and robustness is found to be less than 12.5 % for the observed fluorescence intensity in different ocular tissues/plasma. The method has been applied to check the hypocrellin B concentration in plasma and ocular tissues after intravenous administration and found that hypocrellin B has some exposure to the posterior segment of eye without major intraocular presuure abnormalities. This selective and sensitive fluorimetric method will facilitate the future investigations of hypocrellin B on ocular delivery of hypocrellin B with less solvent consumption.

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Krishnaswami Venkateshwaran, Ponnusamy Chandrasekar, Sankareswaran Senthilkumar, Paulsamy Muthuselvam, Palanisamy Rajaguru and Natesan Subramanian, Quantification of Hypocrellin B in Rabbit Ocular Tissues/Plasma by Spectrofluorimeter: Application to Biodistribution Study, Current Bioactive Compounds 2014; 10 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573407210666141001000336