Research Article

Simultaneous Quantification of Four Ginsenosides in Rat Plasma and Its Application to a Comparative Pharmacokinetic Study in Normal and Depression Rats Using UHPLC-MS/MS

Table 3

Summary of intraday and interday precisions, accuracies, extraction recoveries, and matrix effects of the four analytes in rat plasma (n = 6).

AnalytesConcentration (ng/mL)Intraday RSD (%)Interday RSD (%)Accuracy (RE%)Recovery (%)Matrix effect (%)

G-Rh1259.439.690.5890.65 ± 2.3495.67 ± 2.45
2500.950.493.8493.67 ± 4.0887.37 ± 8.45
25001.212.954.0896.59 ± 0.6297.57 ± 3.11

G-Rb1256.656.21−3.4786.06 ± 2.5791.33 ± 0.96
2500.984.56−1.4491.86 ± 2.2594.22 ± 1.47
25003.502.382.3894.19 ± 1.5595.55 ± 1.22

G-Rc255.356.21−7.4489.46 ± 5.1389.42 ± 3.17
2504.383.286.3491.28 ± 4.5694.43 ± 5.85
25003.864.61−6.5193.60 ± 2.0296.85 ± 7.33

G-Rd256.294.82−8.9287.64 ± 4.8791.78 ± 5.38
2501.652.20−5.1290.87 ± 0.5696.65 ± 3.97
25003.874.517.7096.86 ± 5.0889.94 ± 3.77