Establishment of a UPLC-MS/MS Method for Studying the Effect of Salt-Processing on Tissue Distribution of Twelve Major Bioactive Components of Qing’e Pills in Rats

Figure 4

The RTE profiles of 12 kinds of compounds in crude and salt-processed Qing’e pills in rat tissue (n = 3 for sexual organs and n = 6 for other tissues). (a) Geniposidic acid, (b) pinoresinol diglucoside, (c) psoralen, (d) isopsoralen, (e) psoralenoside, (f) bavachin, (g) isobavachin, (h) bavachalcone, (i) isobavachalcone, (j) neobavaisoflavone, (k) psoralidin, and (l) bavachinin.

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