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Inhibitory Effects of the Stem Bark of Albizia julibrissin on Catecholamine Biosynthesis in PC12 Cells

  • Lee, Myung-Koo
    • 생약학회지
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    • 제27권2호
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    • pp.155-158
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    • 1996
  • The methanol extract of Albizzia julibrissin Durazz. (Leguminosae) was successively partitioned into dichloromethane, ethylacetate, butanol (BuOH) and water fractions, and the effects of the each solvent extract on catecholamine biosynthesis in PC12 cells were investigated. Among them, the BuOH fraction $(5{\mu}g/ml\;medium)$ showed 68.8% and 63.6% inhibition on dopamine and norepinephrine content in PC12 cells, respectively. Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity was also reduced markedly by treatment of the BuOH fraction (41.8% inhibition at $5{\mu}g/ml$ in the medium). Each solvent fraction did not show cytotoxicity towards PC12 cells by trypan blue exclusion test. This result suggests that the BuOH fraction has an inhibitory effect on catecholamine biosynthesis by reducing TH activity in PC12 cells.

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Antimicrobial Activities of Hydroxybiphenyl Derivatives

  • Bae, Ki-Hwan;Koo, Sung-Hyen;Seo, Won-Jun
    • 생약학회지
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    • 제17권1호
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 1986
  • It has been elucidated that magnolol and honokiol, isolated from the stem bark of Magnolia obovata, had potent antibacterial activity against a cariogenic bacterium Streptococcus mutans. They also show a significant antibacterial activity against Bacillus anthracis, which causes malignant pustule and woolsorter disease in human. Some hydroxybiphenyl derivatives are synthesized from starting materials, phenylphenols and biphenols by means of Claisen's rearrangement and Elb's method to develop more potent antibacterial chemicals and to investigate the structure-activity relationships. The introduction of allyl groups to the aromatic rings of starting materials shows increase of antibacterial activities, but the number and positions of them do not effect their activities. Furthermore, the introduction of hydroxy group to aromatic rings also increases the activity.

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Antioxidant compounds from the stem bark of Sorbus commixta

  • Na, Min-Kyun;An, Ren-Bo;Lee, Sang-Myung;Min, Byung-Sun;Kim, Young-Ho;Bae, Ki-Hwan;Kang, Sam-Sik
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.26-29
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    • 2002
  • The MeOH extract of Sorbus commixta (Rosaceae) exhibited strong DPPH radical scavenging activity, and through activity-guided fractionation two antioxidant compounds were isolated and identified as $catechin-7-O-{\beta}-D-xylopyranoside$ (1) and $catechin-7-O-\;{\beta}-D-apiofuranoside$ (2) by physicochemical and spectrometric methods. To evaluate the antioxidant effect of these compounds, some in vitro tests, such as the DPPH radical scavenging activity test, the superoxide radical scavenging activity test and the lipid peroxidation inhibitory activity test, were performed. Compounds 1 and 2 showed stronger activities than both a-tocopherol and butylated hydroxy anisole (BHA) in each assay.

Chemical Constituents from Sorbus commixta

  • Na, Min-Kyun;An, Ren-Bo;Min, Byung-Sun;Lee, Sang-Myung;Kim, Young-Ho;Bae, Ki-Hwan
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.62-65
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    • 2002
  • Two lupane-type triterpenes, lupenone (1) and lupeol (2), a phytosterol, ${\beta}-sitosterol$ (3), two ursane-type triterpenes, $3{\beta}-acetoxy$ ursolic acid (4) and ursolic acid (5), a lignan, (-)-lyoniresinol $3a-O-{\beta}-D-xylopyranoside$ (6), and two flavanol glycosides, $catechin-7-O-{\beta}-D-xylopyranoside$ (7) and $catechin-7-O-{\beta}-D-apiofuranoside$ (8) were isolated from the stem bark of Sorbus commixta (Rosaceae). Their chemical structures were identified by physicochemical and spectroscopic methods.

Isolation of Flavonoids and a Cerebroside from the Stem Bark of Albizzia julibrissin

  • Jung, Mee-Jung;Kang, Sam-Sik;Jung, Hyun-Ah;Kim, Goon-Ja;Choi, Jae-Sue
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • 제27권6호
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    • pp.593-599
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    • 2004
  • From the EtOAc fraction of the MeOH extract of Albizzia julibrissin (Leguminosae), a rare 5-deoxyflavone (geraldone, 1), isookanin (2), luteolin (3), an isoflavone (daidzein, 4), five prenylated flavonoids [soph6f1avescenol (5), kurarinone (6), kurarinol (7), kuraridin (8) and kuraridinol (9)], a cerebroside (soya-cerebroside I, 10), and $(-)-syringaresinol-4-O-{\beta}-D-glucopyranoside$ (11) were isolated and characterized on the basis of spectral data. Compounds 2, 3, and 11, showed 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging activity.

A Potent Anti-diabetic Agent from Kalopanax pictus

  • Park, Hee-Juhn;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Choi, Jong-Won;Park, Jong-Hee;Han, Yong-Nam
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • 제21권1호
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 1998
  • To search for the anti-diabetic principle from the stem bark of Kalopanax pictus, seven kinds of chemical constituents including hederagenin glycosides and phenolic glycosides wre isolated. The anti-diabetic evaluation of these isoltes in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats exhibited that kalopanaxsaponin A has a potent anti-diabetic activity in contrast to a mild activity of hederagenin. In addition, significant hypocholesterolemic and hypolipidemic activities of kalopanaxsaponin A and hederagenin were observed. The structure-activity relationship of kalopanaxsaponin A was also investigated in the present work.

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Preliminary antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of Amoora cucullata extractives

  • Rahman, Mohammad S.;Rashid, Mohammad A.
    • Advances in Traditional Medicine
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.182-185
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    • 2009
  • Amoora cucullata (Meliaceae), a mangrove plant, has folkloric reputation as a medicinal agent in Bangladesh. In this study, the n-hexane, ethyl acetate and methanolic extracts of the stem bark of this plant were subjected to microbiological investigation and brine shrimp lethality bioassay. In case of antimicrobial screening, the ethyl acetate and methanolic extracts appeared to be potent in terms of both zone of inhibition and spectrum of activity showing the average zones of inhibition 8 - 14 mm and 9 - 16 mm, respectively. In the brine shrimp lethality bioassay, the methanolic extract demonstrated highest cytotoxicity having $LC_{50}$ of $0.549{\mu}g/ml$, whereas the ethyl acetate and n-hexane extract showed $LC_{50}$ of 7.943 and $17.180{\mu}g/ml$, respectively.

우리나라산(産) 참나무과(科) 4수종(樹種)의 Collapse에 관한 연구(硏究) (Studies on the Collapse of four domestic Fagaceae Species)

  • 박종수;김수창
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 1993
  • The collapse of four domestic Fagaceae species was observed in relation with their moisture content(MC), basic density, P (Percent of moisture content saturation of the wood) and Q (Percent of cell cavity volume containing water) and the variation of collapse phenomenon in the cross section of stem was also investigated. The results were summarized as follows : The values of collapse in each species were great in order of Quercus dentata, Quercus variabilis, Quercus aliena and Quercus mongolica and the values were higher in heartwood than in sapwood in all of specimen. MC, basic density, P and Q were important factors which affected on the occurance of collapse and the collapse phenomenon was decreased from pith to bark.

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