• 생약학회지
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• 제35권1호통권136호
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• pp.28-34
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• 2004

DNA damage induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS) seems to play an important role in the induction of mutation and cancer. Hydrogen peroxide $(H_2O_2)$ has been shown to induce a variety of genetic alterations, probably by the generation of hydroxyl radicals via Fenton reaction. In this study, we examined the ability of medicinal herbs in the suppression of $H_2O_2$-induced mutagenesis. Human fibroblast GM00637 cells were treated with $H_2O_2$ in the presence or absence of medicinal herbs, and $H_2O_2$-induced mutant frequency was measured at the hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) locus. Treatment of cells with various doses of $H_2O_2$ caused a significant increase of the HPRT mutant frequency. However, pretreatment of cells with several medicinal herbs reduced $H_2O_2$-induced mutant frequency. The strong antimutagenic effects were observed from the methylene chloride and ethyl acetate fractions of Selaginella tamariscina, Panax ginseng, and Angelica acutiloba; ethyl acetate fractions of Rehmania glutinosa, Leonurus sibiricus, Curcuma zedoaria and Commiphora molmol; butanol fractions of Scutellaria barbata, Tribulus terrestris, Curcuma zedoaria, Cyperus rotundus and Carthamus tinctorius, which were more than 60% inhibition of $H_2O_2$-induced mutant frequency at the HPRT locus.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.312-317
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• 1985

${\beta}$-Glucuronidase (EC 3.2.1.31) which hydrolizes D-glucuronate from ${\beta}$-D-glucuronide was purified from rat liver, using ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, Concanavalin-A Sepharose 4B chromatography and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200. This enzyme has the molecular weight of 280,000 daltons by gel filtration and 75,000 daltons by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. As its funtion is reverse of detoxification in the liver, the inhibition of the enzyme was tested with extracts of several food products and medicinal herbs, some are known as anti-cancer agents. Among them, Panax ginseng and Cortnellus shiiake inhibited the enzyme competitively and the $K_1$ values were $9.22 {\times}\;10^{-2}$ and 0.102 mg/ml, respectively. These inhibitors strongly bound to DEAE-cellulose. The negatively charged amino acids, L-aspartate and L-glutamate, inhibited the enzyme, and $K_1$ value of L-aspartate was 0.80 mM. The interaction between ${\beta}$-glucuronidase and p-nitrophenyl-${\beta}$-D-glucuronide was found to involve ionic forces by the effect of ionic strength on the kinetic constant, Vmax/Km. It was inferred from these findings that cationic group at the active center of the enzyme is probably involved in attacking the substrate.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.314-321
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• 2015

Background: Ginseng belongs to the genus Panax. Its main active ingredients are the ginsenosides. Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) are the pacemaker cells of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. To understand the effects of ginsenoside Re (GRe) on GI motility, the authors investigated its effects on the pacemaker activity of ICCs of the murine small intestine. Methods: Interstitial cells of Cajal were dissociated from mouse small intestines by enzymatic digestion. The whole-cell patch clamp configuration was used to record pacemaker potentials in cultured ICCs. Changes in cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) content induced by GRe were investigated. Results: Ginsenoside Re ($20-40{\mu}M$) decreased the amplitude and frequency of ICC pacemaker activity in a concentration-dependent manner. This action was blocked by guanosine 50-[${\beta}-thio$]diphosphate [a guanosine-5'-triphosphate (GTP)-binding protein inhibitor] and by glibenclamide [an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-sensitive $K^{+}$ channel blocker]. To study the GRe-induced signaling pathway in ICCs, the effects of 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one (a guanylate cyclase inhibitor) and RP-8-CPT-cGMPS (a protein kinase G inhibitor) were examined. Both inhibitors blocked the inhibitory effect of GRe on ICC pacemaker activity. L-NG-nitroarginine methyl ester ($100{\mu}M$), which is a nonselective nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor, blocked the effects of GRe on ICC pacemaker activity and GRe-stimulated cGMP production in ICCs. Conclusion: In cultured murine ICCs, GRe inhibits the pacemaker activity of ICCs via the ATP-sensitive potassium ($K^{+}$) channel and the cGMP/NO-dependent pathway. Ginsenoside Re may be a basis for developing novel spasmolytic agents to prevent or alleviate GI motility dysfunction.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.164-177
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• 1990

인삼(人蔘)(Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer)의 증산을 제한하는데 가장 큰 요인(要因)은 연작장해이므로 인삼(人蔘)의 증산에 기여할 수 있는 기초자료를 얻기위해 조사(調査)를 실시하였다. 1. 토양(土壤) pH가 F. solani 및 C. destructans의 포자발아(胞子發芽) 그리고 R. solani의 균사생장(菌絲生長)에 미치는 상관관계(相關關係)는 각각 r=0.2645, r=0.315, r=0.19로서 정(正)의 상관(相關)을 나타내었다. 2. 병원균(病原菌)의 포자발아(胞子發芽)와 토양미생물(土壤微生物) 분포수(分布數)와의 관계(關係)를 분석(分析)한 결과(結果), F. solani와 전세균(全細菌), 방선균(放線菌), 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 세균(細菌)의 분포수(分布數)와의 관계(關係)에서 각각 r=0.21, r=0.37, r=0.20의 정(正)의 상관(相關)을 나타내었으나 전진균(全眞菌)과의 관계(關係)에서는 r=-0.20으로서 부(負)의 상관관계(相關關係)였다. R. solani의 균사생장(菌絲生長)과 방선균(放線菌)의 분포수(分布數)사이에는 정(正)의 상관(相關)(r=0.24)이 있었다. 3. 총 146개 토양(土壤)중에서 F. solani는 40개 토양(土壤)에서, C. destructans는 20개 토양(土壤)에서, R. solani는 9개 토양(土壤)에서 각각 병원균(病原菌) 억제토양(抑制土壤)으로 선발(選拔)되었다. 4. 병원균(病原菌) 억제토양(抑制土壤)의 K, Ca, Mg, Na의 평균함양(平均含量)은 유발토양(誘發土壤)의 것보다 적었으며 병원균(病原菌) 억제토양(抑制土壤)의 유기물함양(有機物含量)은 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 2배이상 높았다. $P_2O_5$의 함양(含量)은 F. solani와 R. solani의 억제토양(抑制土壤)이 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 낮은 반면, C. destructans의 억제토양(抑制土壤)은 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 약간 높았다. 토양(土壤) pH에 있어서 억제토양(抑制土壤)의 평균(平均) pH는 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 낮은 수치였다. 토양(土壤)의 물리적(物理的) 특성(特性)에 있어서 모래의 평균함양(平均含量)은 병원균(病原菌) 억제토양(抑制土壤)이 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 2배 정도가 높은 반면, 미사(微砂)와 점사(粘士)의 함양(含量)은 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 낮았다. 5. 병원균(病原菌) 억제토양(抑制土壤)과 유발토양(誘發土壤)의 미생물분포(微生物分布)는 F. solani 억제토양(抑制土壤)에 있어서 전세균(全細菌), 전진균(全眞菌), 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 진균(眞菌)의 분포수(分布數)가 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 높았던 반면, 방선균(放線菌), 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 세균(細菌)의 분포수(分布數)는 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 낮았으며, 전세균(全細菌) 및 전진균(全眞菌)의 분포수(分布數)는 병원균(病原菌) 억제토양(抑制土壤)과 유발토양(誘發土壤) 사이에 각각 유의성(有意性)(P=0.05)이 있었고, 방선균(放線菌)은 고도(高度)의 유의성(有意性)(P=0.01)이 두 토양(土壤) 사이에서 인정되었다. C. destructans의 억제토양(抑制土壤)에 있어서 전세균(全細菌), 전진균(全眞菌), 방선균(放線菌), 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 진균(眞菌)의 분포수(分布數)는 유발토양(誘發土壤)의 분포수(分布數)보다 높았던 반면, 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 세균(細菌)의 분포수(分布數)는 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 2배 정도가 낮았다. R. solani의 억제토양(抑制土壤)에 있어서 전진균(全眞菌)의 분포수(分布數)가 유발토양(誘發土壤)의 분포수(分布數)보다 높았던 반면, 전세균(全細菌), 방선균(放線菌), 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 세균(細菌), 섬유소분해(纖維素分解) 진균(眞菌)의 분포수(分布數)는 유발토양(誘發土壤)보다 낮았다. 6. 인삼근부병(人蔘根腐病) 발병(發病) 억제토양(抑制土壤)의 선발(選拔)은 공시(供試) 병원균(病原菌)별로 인삼(人蔘)이 식재(植栽)된 각각의 16개 토양(土壤)중 F. solani는 14개 토양(土壤)에서, C. destructans는 15개 토양(土壤)에서 각각 발병(發病) 억제성(抑制性)을 확인하였다. F. solani의 발병(發病) 억제토양(抑制土壤)에서 인삼(人蔘)의 근부률(根腐率)은 $1.0{\sim}17.4%$였으며, C. destructans의 발병(發病) 억제토양(抑制土壤)에서 인삼(人蔘)의 근부률(根腐率)은 $0.2{\sim}20.4%$였다.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 1981

The ginsenosides of Korean ginseng decomposed profoundly to produce artifact products of prosapogenin $A_{1}$, $A_{2}$ and $A_{3}$ from ginsenoside Rg$_{1}$, prosapogenin $C_{1}$, $C_{2}$ and $C_{3}$ from ginsenoside Re, and prosapogenin E$_{1}$, E$_{2}$ and E$_{3}$ from ginsenoside Rb$_{1}$ by the acid treatment under physiological condition such as 37.deg.C incubation in 0.1 N HCI. 2. The chemical structures of the artifact substances were determined by the analysis CMR and mass spectra of TMS derivatives as following; table omitted.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.289-293
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• 2003

Antioxidant activity and nicotine degradation activity (NDA) of 21 medicinal herbs were determined by using a 1,1-diphenol-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) method and a PLC/PRF5 human liver cell line method, respectively, to develop an anti-smoking aid. The highest and lowest antioxidant activities represented by $IC_{50}$/ value were 30 $\mu$g/mL of Eugenia caryophyllus and 3,270 $\mu$g/mL of Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer, respectively. Antioxidant activity of Eugenia caryophyllus was equal to 38.0$\pm$1.2 mg VCEAC(vitamin C equivalent antioxidant capacity)/ g herb. The highest and lowest NDA values were 1.81 of Astrgalus membranaceus Bunge and 1.01 of Raphani seed and Lespedeza tomentosa Sieb, respectively. Eleven medicinal herbs with high antioxidant activity and/or NDA were selected to make an herbal tea. The herbal tea had high antioxidant activity (50 $\mu$g/mL $IC_{50}$/ and 22.4$\pm$1.4 mgVCEAC/g) and NDA (1.243). The medicinal herb tea could help smokers quitting smoking by degrading and exhausting nicotine accumulated in body and removing reactive oxygen species.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물학회 1995년도 식물학심포지움 식물로부터 유용 2차대사산물의 생산 PRODUCTION OF USEFUL SECONDARY METABOLITES FROM PLANTS
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• pp.40-56
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• 1995

During the past two decades, China has seen her great progress in plant biotechnology. Since the Chinese market of herb medicine is huge, while the plant resources are shrinking, particular emphasis has been placed in plant tissue and cell cultures of medicinal plants, this includes fast propagation, protoplast isolation and regeneration, cell suspension cultures and large scale fermentation. To optimize culture conditions for producing secondary compounds in vitro, various media, additives and elicitors have been tested. Successful examples of large scale culture for the secondary metabolite biosynthesis are quite limited : Lithospermum ery throrhizon and Arnebia euchroma for shikonin derivatives, Panax ginseng, P. notoginseng, P. quinquefolium for saponins, and a few other medicinal plants. Recent development of genetic transformation systems of plant cells offered a new approach to in vitro production of secondary compounds. Hairy root induction and cultures, by using Ri-plasmid, have been reported from a number of medicinal plant species, such as Artemisia annua that produces little artemisinin in normal cultured cells, and from Glycyrrhiza uralensis. In the coming five years, Chinese scientists will continue their work on large scale cell cultures of a few of selected plant species, including Taxus spp. and A. annua, for the production of secondary metabolites with medicinal interests, one or two groups of scientists will be engaged in molecular cloning of the key enzymes in plant secondary metabolism.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2005

cDNA for oxidosqualene cyclase was cloned by a homology-based PCR method and sequenced from Centella asiatica. In a sequences analysis, the putative polypeptide of C. asiatica cycloartenol synthase (CaCYS) deduced from the 2,274 bp nucleotide sequence, consisted of 758 amino acids and had a molecular mass of 86.3 kD. The predicted amino acid sequence exhibited high homology to that of PNX (cycloartenol synthase) from Panax ginseng ($89\%$). Southern blot analysis suggests that CaCYS may be present in one copy of the C. asiatica genome. If methyl jasmonate (MJ) is applied exogenously to plants, not only triterpene saponins are accumulated in tissues, but also it produces effects such as growth inhibition and the promotion of ethylene production. In order to investigate the effect of MJ and thidiazuron (TDZ), a cytokinin that plays a role as an antisenescence agent in several plants, on the level of CaCYS mRNA, we performed northern blot analysis. When MJ is alone treated by adding to culture medium, CaCYS transcripts were inhibited. However, sustained levels of the expression of CaCYS, by adding TDZ to the medium despite MJ treatments, were demonstrated in C. asiatica leaves.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.251-256
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• 2003

한국산 인삼을 60% acetone으로 추출하여 Sepadex LH-20 gel column chromatography, MCI-CHP 20 gel column chromatography, ${\mu}-Bondapack\;C_{18}$ gel column chromatography을 이용하여 polyphenol 분획물을 3종류를 분리하여 항산화 효과, phospholipase $A_2$ 저해효과 및 암세포 증식억제 효과를 검토하였다. 항산화 효과에서 분획물 I은 150 ppm에서 $Cu^{2+},\;KO_2$ 그리고 $H_2O_2$에 대하여 각각 48.16%, 79.71%, 43.55%를 나타내었고 DPPH 수소공여능은 분획물 II가 200 ppm에서 35.17%의 라디칼소거능을 보였다. 분획물 III는 $Fe^{2+}$, OH가 존재 시 150 ppm에서 48.49%, 25%의 항산화효과를 나타내었다. Phospholipase $A_2$ 저해활성은 분획물 III이 $60\;{\mu}/ml$에서 48.9%의 활성을 나타냈다. HT 29 cell에 대한 인삼의 세포 독성은 분획물 II에서 0.25 mg/ml에서 73.29%의 가장 높은 억제능을 나타내었다.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.1466-1475
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• 2021

Compound K (20-O-β-(_D-glucopyranosyl)-20(S)-protopanaxadiol)는 진세노사이드의 활성성분이다. Compound K는 경구 투여 후 Rb₁, Rb₂ 및 Rc가 사람의 장내 미생물의 β-glucosidase에 의해 생물전환 과정을 거쳐 생성된다고 알려져 있다. 본 연구는 생물전환된 인삼농축액에서 얻은 compound K를 이용해 항염증 및 독성을 조사하였다. 세포독성평가 결과, compound K는 0.001~1 ㎍/mL의 농도범위에서 유의적인 세포독성은 나타나지 않았으며, LPS로 염증이 유발된 RAW 264.7 세포에서 TNF-α, MCP-1, IL-6 및 NO의 생성을 억제하는 것으로 확인되었다. 동일 농도범위에서 TNF-α 및 IFN-γ로 염증이 유발된 HaCaT 세포는 compound K의 처리로 인해 IL-8의 생성을 감소시키는 것으로 나타났지만, IL-6의 경우 일부 농도에서 생성을 감소시켰으나, 통계적인 유의성은 나타나지 않았다. Brine shrimp를 이용한 치사율 검정법에서 compound K의 LC₅₀는 0.37mg/mL로 다소의 독성을 함유하고 있는 것으로 나타났으나 compound K가 35% 고함유된 생물전환물은 LC₅₀가 0.87mg/mL로 나타나 상대적으로 낮은 독성을 보였다. 따라서 이 생성물은 향후 여드름 완화용 화장품 개발에 사용할 수 있는 매우 우수한 기능성 소재가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.