• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.3423-3426
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• 2010

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.401-409
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• 1994

The cholinergic activity of dammarane glycosides of Panax ginseng was examined both morphologically and chemically on primary cultures of chicken embryonic brain cells. When primary cultured chicken embryonic cells were treated with $50\;{\mu}g/ml$ of total dammarane glycosides of Panax ginseng followed by the exposure to 10mM atropine for 48 hr, lactate dehydrogenase levels within the cells remained at 36% of untreated control values while atropine-treated controls fell to 0% lactate dehydrogenase. It was found that cholinergic activity was mainly exerted by the panaxadiol glycosides. The treatment of the cells with $50\;{\mu}g/ml$ of panaxadiol glycosides followed by the exposure to atropine, lactate dehydrogenase levels within the cells remained at 60% of untreated control values. Ginsenoside $Rb_1$, a component of panaxadiol glycosides, was found to exert the cholinergic activity keeping the lactate dehydrogenase levels within the cells at 70% of untreated control values. The cholinergic activity of ginsenoside $Rb_1$ seems to be exerted through acting on the $Ca^{2+}$ channel in cultured brain cells.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.341-347
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• 1990

The anti-hepatotoxic activity of Panax ginseng was studied using galactosamine (GalN)-induced cytotoxicity in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. Panax ginseng was fractionated into dammarane glycosides and protein fractions. The dammarane glycosides was further fractionated into panaxadiol and panaxatriol glycosides fractions. The protein fraction was further fractionated into four groups according to the molecular weight; larger than 10,000 dalton, between 5,000 and 10,000 dalton, between 1,000 and 5,000 dalton and between 500 and 1,000 dalton. A significant lowering action on the elevated glutamicpyruvic transaminase (GPT) activity in the culture medium of hepatocytes treated with 1.5 mM GalN was noticed with all four protein fractions studied at the concentration of both $50\;{\mu}g/ml$ and $100\;{\mu}g/ml$. However, the effect of dammarane glycosides fractions was not significant. It was noted that the addition of $100\;{\mu}g/ml$ of protein fractions smaller than 5,000 dalton significantly enhanced the syntheses of protein and RNA in the damaged hepatocytes induced by the treatment of 1.5 mM GalN. Dammarane glycosides fractions significantly enhanced protein synthesis at the concentration of $100\;{\mu}g/ml$ in the damaged hepatocytes by treatment of 1.5 mM GalN.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 1978

A procedure of $^3H$-radio labeling synthesis for the dammarane triterpene glycosides of Korean ginseng was established by using the ginsenoside $Rg_1$ as starting material. The protons in $C-{11}$ and $C_{13}$ of the aglycone moiety of the glycoside were exchanged with tritium by keto-enol tautomerization of 12-keto-ginsenoside $Rg_1$ which was prepared by partial acetylation, Sarett oxidation and saponification, producing nona-acetate, nonaside $Rg_1$. The acety1-ketone and 12-keto-derivative of ginsenotritated ketone was reduced by metallic sodium and isoproponol to produce the end product $^3H$-ginsenoside $Rg_1$ with 3% radio-chemical recovery in one experiment.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.3122-3124
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• 2014

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 1974

A new dammarane-type triterpenoid, betulafolianediol, $C_{30}$H$_{52}$O$_{3}$, mp $165^{\circ}$[${\alpha}$]$_D$^{20}=+$20^{\circ}$, was isolated form the unsaponifiable fraction of leves of Betula latifalia $K_{OMAROV}$ (Betulaceae). From the spectral data of the betulafolianediol and its derivatives, betulafolianediol monoacetate (II) and betulafolianediol monoketone, the structure of betulafolianediol was provide to be 3${\alpha}$, 25-dioxy-dammarane-20[S]->24 [S]-epoxide.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.331-335
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• 1993

Three phenolic compounds and a dammarane glycoside were isolated from the leaves of Hedera rhombea Bean (Araliaceae). Their structures were characterized as rutin, caffeic acid, 3.5-dicaffeoyl quinic acid and kizuta saponin $K_5$ by chemical and spectral analysis.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.428-432
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• 2002

Three new dammarane glycosides were isolated from the processed ginseng (SG; Sun Ginseng). Their structure were determined to be $3{\beta},{\;}12{\beta}-dihydroxydammar-20(21),24-diene-3-O-{\beta}-D-glucopyranosyl(1{\;}{\rightarrow}{\;}2)-{\beta}-D-glucopyranoside;{\;}3{\beta},{\;}12{\beta}-dihydroxydammar-20(21),24-diene-3-O-{\beta}-D-{\;}glucopyranoside{\;}and{\;}3{\beta},6{\alpha},12{\beta}-trihydroxydammar-20(21),24-diene-6-O-{\beta}-D-glucopyranoside$ based on spectroscopic evidences. The compounds were named as ginsenoside $Rk_1,{\;}Rk_2,{\;}and{\;}Rk_3$ respectively.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.345-350
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• 2020

In recent years, tyrosine kinases (TKs) have been the target to combat cancers, and most of the developed inhibitors are of synthetic origin. Natural compounds that have the properties as the TK's inhibitors are very limited. This paper described the isolation of a new dammarane triterpene from the tree bark of Sandoricum koetjape, along with three known related dammaranes from the damar resin of Shorea javanica, as well as their inhibitory properties against eight receptor TKs (RTKs: EGFR, HER2, HER4, IGF1R, InsR, KDR, PDGFRα, and PDGFRβ). Based on the NMR and mass spectral data the new compound was identified as (12β,20S)-12,20-dihydroxy-3,4-seco-dammaran-4,24-dien-3-oic acid (12β-hydroxydammarenolic acid) (1), while the three known compounds were identified as (20S)-20-hydroxy-3,4-seco-dammaran-4,24-dien-3-oic acid (dammarenolic acid) (2), (3β,20S)-3,20-dihydroxydammaran-24-ene (3), and (20S)-3-oxo-20-hydroxydammaran-24-ene (4). The tyrosine kinase assay of the four compounds resulted only 1 and 2 at concentration of 10 μM that had weak activity against EGFR and InsR, with their % inhibitory were 30%, 27% (1), 45%, and 32% (2), respectively. The results suggested that the presence of a linear carboxylic acid group in both compounds could be of significance to the inhibitory properties against the two RTKs.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.144-158
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• 1975