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In the work reported herein, a novel method termed competitive fluorescence-linked immunosorbent assay (cFLISA) based on monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) coupled with quantum dots (QDs) was developed for the quick and sensitive determination of RUS in biological samples. The mAbs against RUS were conjugated with CdSe\/ZnS QDs by the crossing-linking reagents and an indirect cFLISA method was developed. There was a good linear relationship between inhibition efficiency and logarithm concentration of RUS which was varied from 0.1 to 1000 ng\/mL. The IC50 and limit of detection (LOD) were 9.59 ng\/mL and 0.016 ng\/mL respectively, which much lower than the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method. The recoveries in plasma and tissues were ranged from 82.3% to 107.0% and the intra- and inter-day precision values were below 15%. The developed cFLISA has been successfully applied to the measurement of the concentrations of RUS in biological samples of rats, and showed great potential for the tissue distribution study of RUS. The cFLISA method may provide a valuable tool for the analysis of small molecules in biological samples and such an approach could be applied to other natural products.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules22081250","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,26]],"date-time":"2017-07-26T11:45:01Z","timestamp":1501069501000},"page":"1250","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Novel Fluoroimmunoassay for Detecting Ruscogenin with Monoclonal Antibodies Conjugated with CdSe\/ZnS Quantum Dots"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8219-6892","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongwei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lan","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiufeng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jihua","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for TCM Evaluation and Translational Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1401-9250","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Boyang","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cao, G., Jiang, N., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, G., Yin, M., Ma, X., Zhou, K., Qi, J., and Yu, B. 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