• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.130-141
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• 1990

In order to investigate possible utilization as a naturall antioxidant, antioxidative fraction from pueraria root powder was obtained by solvent extraction. PO,CO and TBA values were measured at $60^{\circ}C$, $100^{\circ}C$, $145^{\circ}C$, respectively, after adding the pueraria root extract to the final concentration of 0.1% to the lard, beef tallow, pallm and soybean oil. The results of antioxidative effect of pueraria root extract to edible oils and fats were as follows : 1. Antioxidative fractions in pueraria root were extracted by sequential solvent systems using ethanol, methanol : isopropyl alcohol (1: 4) and chloroform : methanol(95 : 5). 2. Antioxidative activity of the extracts to edible oils and fats was more effective than that of adding 100 ppm $\alpha$-tocopherol at $60^{\circ}C$. 3. At $60^{\circ}C$ and $100^{\circ}C$, antioxidative effect was beef tallow>palm oil>lard>soybean oil in its orders. 4. At $145^{\circ}C$, the pueraria root extract showed antioxidative activity in beef tallow, lard and palm oil, but not in soybean oil. 5. The content of saturated fatty acids by the heat treatment was remained smalll change, but that of unsaturated fatty acids was noticeable decreased.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.793-798
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• 1990

As a search for natural antioxidants, antioxidative fractions in pueraria root were extracted and identified using column chromatography, thin layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography. Components which have most effective antioxidative activities were futher identified by IR and GC/MS. The strongest antioxidative component of pueraria root methanol extract was identified as puerarin. Puerarin obtained from pueraria root was practically effective as antioxidant at the level of 100 ppm. Antioxidative activity of the puerarin was higher in linoleic acid-water system than in a linoleic acid substrate. Puerarin, daidzin and daidzein contents in pueraria root juice were 0.39%, 0.45% and 0,03%, respectively.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.70-73
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• 2006

To investigate the potential of treatment, antimicrobial activity of various oriental herb extracts were tested for Gardnerella vaginalis, which is the predominant organism in bacterial vaginosis. Among the tested 14 oriental herbs, water-extracts of Kalkeun, Kosam, Nuro, Pakjakyak, Sukchangpo, Shiyup, Junghyang and Hwangryun represented antibacterial activities against G. vaginalis. The minimal inhibition concentration (MIC) of Shiyup against G. vaginais was 0.63 mg/mL, and those of Pakjakyak and Hwangryun, Kalkeun and Nuro, Kosam, Sukchangpo and Junghyang were 1.25 mg/mL, 2.5 mg/mL, and 5 mg/mL, respectively. There-fore, the water-extracts of Kalkeun, Kosam, Nuro, Pakjakyak, Sukchangpo, Shiyup, Junghyang and Hwangryun were considered to be potential treatment of bacterial vaginosis caused by G. vaginalis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.901-906
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• 1999

This study was designed to investigate the effect of Pueraria radix extract on lipid peroxidation in ethanol administered rats. Male sprague dawley rats were given 25% ethanol(2.5g per Kg body weight; E), 10% pueraria radix extract(CP), 25% ethanol and 10% pueraria radix extract(EP). The activity of hepatic superoxide dismutase was increased by ethanol and was lower in the EP group than in the E group. Hepatic catalase activity was increased by ethanol, but decreased by Pueraria radix extract. E group rats had significantly higher liver glutathione peroxidase activity. Activity of hepatic glutathione S transferase was higher in the CP group than in the other groups. No significant dif ferences was found in liver glutathione and lipid peroxide contents between control and EP group. These data indicate that the peroxidative damage associated with chronic ethanol consumption might be decreased by Pueraria radix extract.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.113-122
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• 2005

This study was designed to investigates the effects of Korean pueraris radix water extract in Al(Aluminum) administered rats. Forty-eight male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing $100{\pm}10g$ were used for this experiment and divided into following 6 groups; control group, 3% pueraria radix in water extract group, 1000 and 2000ppm Al group, 1000 and 2000ppm Al group with 3% pueraria radix in water extract group. The Al administered rats were given 1000 and 2000 ppm of $Al_2(SO_4)_3$ disoved in the distilled water. The Al content in the rats tissue of Al administered group was lower than in the rats tissue of Al group with 3% pueraria radix in water extract group. Plasma levels of renin and aldosterone activity was increased by Al administration group, compared with 3% pueraria radix in water extract group and Al administred group. Glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase(GOT) and Glutamate pyruvate transaminase(GPT) were increased in Al-administered group and lower in the 3% extracts of pueraria radix in water extract group. Lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) was lower in the 3% extracts of pueraria radix-Al group than in the Al group. This results suggested that pueraria radix in water extract group has a lowering effects on the accumulation of Al and it is belived that the pueraria radix in extracted water group has some protective effects to Al administered in rats, but the mechanism of these effects was obscure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.92-97
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• 2002

The effects of Pueraria flos (PF) and Pueraria radix (PR) water extract on the hepatic alcohol metabolic enzyme activities were examined in rats that were orally administered ethanol (25% v/v, 5g/kg body weight/day) for 5 weeks. The PF and PR water extract were supplemented in a diet, based on 1.2 g or 2.4 g of raw PF or PR/kg body weight/body. Alcohol administration without the PF or PR supplementation significantly decreased net weight gain, feed intake and feed efficiency ratio. However. both dose of the PF of PR supplementation resulted in significant enhancement of growth and suppression of increased relative weight of liver, brain and heart by alcohol administration. Activities of hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase and microsomal ethanol oxidizing system were higher in the alcohol treated group than in the normal group, while aldehyde dehydrogenase activity was significantly lowered in the alcohol treated group. The hepatic metabolic enzyme activities altered by alcohol administration were normalized by both doses of PF or PR supplement. Hepatic monoamine oxidase activity and hydrogen peroxide, which were significantly higher in the alcohol treated group than in the normal group, were also decreased by the supplementation with either PF or PR. These results indicate that low-or high-supplementation of either water extract PF or PR may alleviate ethanol-induced hepatotoxicity by altering alcohol metabolic enzyme activities.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.133-139
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• 2015

Purpose: There is a fair amount of evidence indicating that increased risk of obesity and insulin resistance is associated with postmenopausal state, but can be modulated by diet and exercise. In this study, we explored whether a Pueraria lobata root-based supplement containing Rehmannia glutinosa (PR) and/or aerobic treadmill exercise can modify the metabolic changes associated with estrogen deficiency. Methods: Seventy rats were randomly assigned to the following groups for 8 weeks (n=10 per group): SHAM, sham-operated; PR0, ovariectomized (OVX) control; PR200, OVX with PR200 mg/kg B.W; PR400, OVX with PR400 mg/kg B.W; EPR0, OVX with exercise; EPR200, OVX with exercise and PR200 mg/kg B.W; EPR400, OVX with exercise and PR400 mg/kg B.W. Results: OVX induced significant increases in body weight, food intake, fat mass, LDL-cholesterol, and fasting blood glucose, confirming induction of menopausal symptoms. PR supplementation or exercise significantly suppressed the above mentioned changes through different regulatory elements in adipose tissue: PR supplement upregulated adiponectin gene expression and aerobic exercise upregulated adiponectin and insulin receptor gene expression and a combination of PR supplement and aerobic exercise showed an additive effect on adiponectin gene expression. Conclusion: Taken together, the results of this study suggest that PR supplement has a potential to provide health benefits in OVX rats through leptin and adiponectin secretion. In addition, the data suggest that combination of exercise and PR would have additive effects on metabolic dysfunction associated with estrogen deficiency.

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.385-391
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• 2003

The influences of the extracts from Cinnamomi Cortex, Eucommiae Cortex, Puerariae Radix, Lycii Fructus, Zizyphi Fructus, Schisandrae Fructus, Mume Fructus, Chaenomelis Fructus on mycelial growth and aflatoxin $B_1$ production from Aspergillus parasiticus were analyzed. The pH of the culture media were reduced to below pH 4 by all the herbal extracts after 3 days incubation. However, the pH of the culture media increased above pH 6 after 6 days incubation using the extracts from Cinnamomi Cortex, Eucommiae Cortex, Puerariae Radix and Lycii Fructus. The mycelial growth of A. parasiticus was increased over the amount of the control. Puerariae Radix produced the largest amount of mycelial growth and Chaenomelis Fructus produced the smallest amount of mycelial growth. The productions of aflatoxin $B_1$ from A. parasticus culture were increased by the extracts of Puerariae Radix and Zizyphi Fructus, while inhibited by the extracts of Cinnamomi Cortex, Eucommiae Cortex, Lycii Fructus, Schisandrae Fructus, Mume Fructus and Chaenomelis Fructus. In particular, the extracts of Cinnamomi Cortex, Lycii Fructus and Schisandrae Fructus almost inhibited the production of aflatoxin $B_1$. The production of the total protein from Cinnamomi Cortex, which produced much less aflatoxin $B_1$, and Puerariae Radix, which produced a great deal of aflatoxin $B_1$ from A parasticus were slightly higher than the production of the total protein of the control medium.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.38-39
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• 2001

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.655-658
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• 2011

The possible application of Lactobacillus spp. as a functional starter culture to ferment galgeuntang (GT) and to produce bioactive isoflavone (daidzein) was investigated. Lactobacillus casei KFRI 127, L. plantarum KFRI 144, L. bulgaricus KFRI 344 were used for GT fermentation. Acid development and quantification of isoflavones using high-performance liquid chromatography were performed after fermentation at 37$^{\circ}C$ for 48 h. All the tested Lactobacillus spp. lowered pH to about 3.8 in 48 h and L. plantarum KFRI 144 exhibited 89.9% hydrolysis rate of daidzin (79.1-8.0 ${\mu}g$/mL) during fermentation. The content of daidzein in GT fermented with L. plantarum KFRI 144 was increased by 6.6-fold (3.6-23.9 ${\mu}g/mL$). These results demonstrate that L. plantarum KFRI 144 has potential as functional starter culture for manufacturing fermented GT with higher isoflavone bioavailability.