• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.751-763
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• 2018

Objective: This study was undertaken to investigate how magnolia bark extract affects ob/ob mouse in terms of metabolic inflammation and insulin resistance. Methods: Leptin-deficient ob/ob mice were divided into 2 groups (n=5): a normal saline treatment (=control) and magnolia bark treatment. Wild type mice were the lean group (n=5). After 5 weeks, we measured fasting blood sugar (FBS) and conducted oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs) in each group. After 6 weeks, we measured body weight, epididymal fat pad weight, liver weight, serum glucose, serum insulin, and gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-${\alpha}$, interferon-${\gamma}$, and interleukin-6. We characterized the phenotype of adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) and analyzed fractions of the phenotype in each group by flow cytometry. Results: In the magnolia bark group, fasting blood sugar, oral glucose tolerance levels, and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) were significantly decreased. The population and proportion of ATMs among leukocytes in adipose tissue were significantly decreased in the magnolia bark group. The population and proportion of M1 type ATMs among ATMs were significantly decreased in the magnolia bark group. Gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-${\alpha}$ was significantly decreased in the magnolia bark group. Conclusions: These results support a positive effect of magnolia bark on metabolic diseases such as insulin resistance and metabolic inflammation in leptin-deficient ob/ob mice.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.332-339
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• 2012

The components of Magnolia officinalis have well known to act anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and neuroprotective activities. These efficacies have been sold many products as nutritional supplement extracted from bark of Magnolia officinalis. Thus, to assess and compare neuroprotective effect in the nutritional supplement (Magnolia $Extract^{TM}$, Health Freedom Nutrition LLC, USA) and our ethanol extract of Magnolia officinalis (BioLand LTD, Korea), we investigated memorial improving and anti-Alzheimer's disease effects of extract products of Magnolia officinalis in a transgenic AD mice model. Oral pretreatment of two extract products of Magnolia officinalis (10 mg/kg/day in 0.05% ethanol) into drinking water for 3 months ameliorated memorial dysfunction and prevented $A{\beta}$ accumulation in the brain of Tg2576 mice. In addition, extract products of Magnolia officinalis also decreased expression of ${\beta}$-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1), amyloid precursor protein (APP) and its product, C99. Although both two extract products of Magnolia officinalis could show preventive effect of memorial dysfunction and $A{\beta}$ accumulation, our ethanol extract of Magnolia officinalis (BioLand LTD, Korea) could be more effective than Magnolia $Extract^{TM}$ (Health Freedom Nutrition LLC, USA). Therefore, our results showed that extract products of Magnolia officinalis were effective for prevention and treatment of AD through memorial improving and anti-amyloidogenic effects via down-regulating ${\beta}$-secretase activity, and neuroprotective efficacy of Magnolia extracts could be differed by cultivating area and manufacturing methods.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.1
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• pp.138.1-138.1
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• 2003

$\beta$-Eudesmol is one of various compounds derived from the bark of Magnolia obovata Thunberg, a medicinal plant. It has been shown that $\beta$-eudesmol also markedly alleviated muscle fasciculation, tremor and convulsion induced by diisopropylfluorophosphate and prolonged the time to death in mice (Chiou et al., 1995). Actually, the extract of magnolia bark has been shown to have depressant actions on the cental nervous system (Watanabe et al., 1973). (omitted)

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.270-276
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• 2008

In this study we investigated the effects of Magnolia Bark (MB) extract and its constituents, such as honokiol and magnolol, on gastritis in rats and the growth of human gastric cancer cells. The MB extract, honokiol, and magnolol showed the acid-neutralizing capacities, the antioxidant activities, and the inhibitory effect on the growth of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori.) at the dose of $50\;{\mu}g/ml$ and over, which is equivalent to that of ampicillin ($100\;{\mu}g/ml$). Honokiol and magnolol had no significant cytotoxicity to human gastric caner cells (AGS and SNU638). However, the MB extract had cytotoxic activity against AGS gastric cancer cell. The MB extract, honokiol, and magnolol significantly inhibited HCI-ethanol-induced gastric lesions without clear change of mucus content. In pylorus ligated rats, honokiol significantly decreased the volume of gastric secretion and gastric acid output, and increased the pH. Magnolol increased the mucus content to almost the same as the control group at oral doses of 50 mg/kg. Therefore, we could guess that antigastritic action of honokiol and magnolol may be associated with the antioxidant activities, acid-neutralizing capacities, inhibition of secretion in gastric acid, and anti-H. pylori action. From these results, we could suggest that MB extract and its constituents, such as honokiol and magnolol, may be useful for the treatment and/or protection of gastritis.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.95-103
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• 2019

입술은 각질층이 매우 얇아 수분증발에 취약하며, 노화 과정에서 주름이 증가하고, 붉은색을 잃으며, 볼륨이 감소하게 된다. 매력적인 입술을 가지기 위해 시행되는 지방이식, 필러 주입을 대체하기 위한 성분에 대한 연구는 아직 보고된 바가 거의 없으며, 최근 새로운 지방세포의 수를 증가시키는 것이 인체 내 지방을 늘릴 수 있는 방법으로 제안되고 있다. 우리는 선행연구에서 지방줄기세포를 지방세포로 분화 유도하는 천연물질로써 요엽후박나무 추출물(Magnolia officinalis bark extract)의 우수한 효능을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 요엽후박나무 추출물이 바이오 프린팅으로 제작한 지방 유사 구조체에서 지방(lipid droplet)의 양을 증가시키면서 분화를 촉진시킴을 3D 수준에서 확인하였다. 다음으로 입술 주름에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위해 주름 사진으로 부터 명암값의 표준편차(SDGV)를 J 이미지 소프트 웨어를 사용하여 측정함으로써 객관적 측정 방법을 확립하였고, 주름 정도에 따른 입술 주름 그레이드를 도출하여 정량화하였다. 결과적으로 요엽후 박나무 추출물 1%를 함유한 제품을 12주간 사용했을 때, 입술 주름을 유의하게 개선시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과는 요엽후박나무 추출물이 지방줄기세포를 지방세포로 분화 유도하는 효능을 가지며, 이러한 효능이 입술 주름을 개선하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다는 점을 시사하고, 따라서 요엽후박나무 추출물은 입술 주름과 볼륨을 개선하는 화장품 후보 소재로 적용 가능하다는 것을 보여준다.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.507-517
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• 2015

The bark of Magnolia officinalis has been used in traditional oriental medicine to treat a variety of mental disorders including anxiety and depression. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of M. officinalis ethanol extract on stress-induced alterations in learning and cognitive function using a passive avoidance test (PAT) and also on anxiety-related behavior using the elevated plus-maze test (EPM) in female rats . The degree of Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in the region of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and the locus coeruleus (LC) was measured using an immunohistochemical method. Corticosterone concentrations in serum were also measured. The ethanol extract from Magnolia officinalis was orally administered to female rats 30 minutes before evaluating their immobilization stress and anxiety-related behavior using an elevated plus-maze test and a passive avoidance test. Time spent in the open arms of the EPM increased in the M. officinalis-treated group compared with that of the saline-treated control group. In the passive avoidance test, the memory and cognitive function improved in the M. officinalis extract-treated group. M. officinalis extracts reduced elevated corticosterone concentrations in serum. Also, stress-induced TH increases were suppressed in the M. officinalis extract-treated group in the LC and the VTA region. These results suggest that M. officinalis might prove to be an effective anxiolytic anti-stress agent.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.249-255
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• 2001

We studied the effect of aqueous extract of Magnolia officinalis bark (Magnoliaceae) (MOAE) on the immediate hypersensitivity reaction. MOAE (0.01 to 1g/kg) dose-dependently inhibited compound 48/80 induced systemic anaphylaxis in rats. MOAE (0.1 and 1g/kg) also significantly inhibited local immunoglobulin E (lgE)-mediated passive cutaneous anaphylactic reaction. When MOAE was pretreated at concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 1g/kg, the levels of plasma histamine were reduced in a dose-dependent manner. MOAE (0.001 to 1 mg/ml) dose-dependently inhibited the histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells (RPMC) activated by compound 48/80 or anti-dinitrophenyl (DNP) Igl. The level of cyclic AMP (CAMP) in RPMC, when MOAE was added, significantly increased compared with that of the normal control. Moreover, MOAE (0.01 to 1 mg/ml) had a significant inhibitory effect on anti-DNP Igl-induced tumor necrosis factor-$\alpha$ production from RPMC. These results indicate that MOAE inhibits immediate hypersensitivity reaction in vivo and in vitro.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.29-32
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• 2007

In vitro 및 in vivo에서 모두 효과를 나타내는 새로운 여드름 개선 성분을 개발하였다. 특히, in vitro에서 효과가 검증된 많은 원료들이 실제 여드름환자에게서 실질적인 효능을 나타내지 못하는 경우가 많아, 본 연구에서는 임상에서 실질적인 효과를 보일 수 있는 원료의 개발에 초점을 맞추었다. 우선적으로 여드름에 효과가 높은 것으로 알려져 있거나 여드름개선 효과가 기대되는 천연물질의 추출물을 대상으로 소규모의 예비임상시험을 통해 효능을 확인하였다. 여러 가지 후보물질 중에서 발아콩과 목련박피 2종의 추출물이 여드름 및 여드름에 의한 홍조현상과 흉터에 뚜렷한 효과를 나타내어 이 두 천연물의 혼합추출물을 SeleMix AN이라 명명하였다. 200여 명의 예비임상시험을 통해서 SeleMix AN의 임상적 효과를 확인한 후 상기 물질의 여드름 개선 작용기작을 규명하기 위한 in vitro 효능테스트를 실시하여 P. Acne 성장억제 효과(시료농도 0.0125%), 16.9%의 히스타민 분비저해효과와 함께, 인간유래 섬유아세포의 활성을 대조군 대비 57% 높여 주는 실험결과를 확인하였다. 최종적으로 분당 서울대병원과의 공동연구를 통해 23명의 여성여드름환자를 대상으로 한 임상평가를 실시하여 새로운 여드름 개선성분의 효능을 검증하였다. 여름에 실시된 최종임상에서 SeleMix AN이 함유된 시료는 피지분비량이 증가하고 여드름 발병율이 높아지는 계절적인 영향에도 불구하고 4주만에 특히, 염증성 병변을 대조군 대비 통계적으로 유의차 있게 감소시키는 뛰어난 여드름 개선 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.275-279
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• 1997

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylorl) infection is now established as the major pathogenic factor in chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. in addition, there is accumulating evidence that H. pylori plays an important role in the process of gastric carcinogenesis. On the other hand, oriental traditional medicines have been used for stomach disease for thousands of years. In the present study, methanol extract from the stem bark of Magnolia sieboldii (M. sieboldii) and its components were investigated on their inhibitory effects against urease activity and growth of H. pylori in vitro. The methanol extract of M. sieboldii significantly inhibited the growth of H. pylori ATCC 43504 at 5 mg/ml. From the further fractionation, the chloroform fraction inhibited the bacterial growth dose-dependently. Among four fractions separated from the chloroform fraction by silica gel column chromatography, MS-C-2 was the most potent. Costunolide was isolated from the MS-C-2 subtraction by preparative TLC and recrystallization using n-hexane. Anti-H. pylori effect of costunolide was investigated using one commercial strain (H. pylori ATCC 43504) and three clinical strains (H. pylon 4, 43, 82548). Costunolide exhibited potent anti-H. pylori activity, and the MIC was around $100-200{\mu}g/ml$. However, costunolide had no inhibitory effect of H. pylori urease activity at the concentration used for the growth inhibition assay. From these results, we conclude that costunolide inhibits the, growth of H. pylori by the independent manner of H. pylori urease inhibition.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.579-586
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• 2010

목련과 식물의 활용도 제고를 위해 항산화제, 식품첨가제 개발에 필요한 항균 및 항산화 활성을 검정하였다. 우선 목련과 총 11종 식물의 수피, 잎, 목부, 꽃 및 열매의 에탄올 조추출물을 1,000 ${\mu}g/m{\ell}$로 조제하여 항진균 활성을 조사하였다. 그 결과 일본목련 수피가 백색부후균인 Trametes versicolor를 제외한 모든 공시균주에 대하여 50% 이상의 균사생장억제율을 나타내어 항균활성이 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 그 다음이 일본목련 목부로 탄저병균인 Glomerella cingulata와 목재부후균인 T. versicolor, Tyromyces palustris를 제외한 공시균주에 대하여 50% 이상의 균사생장억제율을 나타내었다. 수종별로는 일본목련이 가장 항균활성이 우수하여 수피, 잎, 목부 모두 항균활성이 있는 것으로 나타났으며 그 다음이 목련, 함박꽃나무 순이었다. 부위별로는 수피가 가장 활성이 우수하였으며 백목련, 자목련의 경우에는 다른 부위에 비해 꽃의 항균활성이 우수하였다. 또한, 프리라 디칼소거능을 측정하여 항산화활성을 검정한 결과에서는 100 ${\mu}g/m{\ell}$의 농도에서 태산목 수피와 잎이 70% 이상의 소거능을, 그리고 초령목 수피와 잎, 흑오미자 줄기 및 남오미자 줄기가 90% 이상의 소거능을 나타내었다. 특히, 흑오미자 줄기 및 남오미자 줄기는 10 ${\mu}g/m{\ell}$의 농도에서 각각 41.2%와 44.4%의 소거능을 나타내어 합성 항산화제인 butylated hydroxyanisole 및 천연항산화제인 ${\alpha}$-tocopherol과 동등한 항산화활성이 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 금후 흑오미자 및 남오미자 줄기와 같이 항산화활성 우수 시료는 활성물질 분리 및 구조 동정, 안전성 검정 등을 통하여 식품보존제 및 화장품 소재로 개발이 가능할 것으로 사료되었다.