Biomedical Science Letters (대한의생명과학회지)
- Volume 9 Issue 3
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- Pages.151-158
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- 2003
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- 1738-3226(pISSN)
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- 2288-7415(eISSN)
Effect of Dietary Monascus Pigment on the Liver Damage Induced with $CCl_4$ in Rats
- Park, Young-Ja (Department of Public Health, College of Natural Science, Keimyung University) ;
- Park, Hyeoun-Yeoun (Department of Public Health, College of Natural Science, Keimyung University) ;
- Kim, Young-Ran (Department of Public Health, College of Natural Science, Keimyung University) ;
- Oh, Jeong-Dae (Department of Public Health, College of Natural Science, Keimyung University) ;
- Yoon, Chong-Guk (Department of Public Health, College of Natural Science, Keimyung University)
- Published : 2003.09.01
Abstract
In the biological world, there are a number of ecological fights for survival between each organism such as plants, animals and microorganism In such events, an organism can use its natural bioactive products as defence agent against other organisms. Furthermore, natural bioactive products can be utilized for medicine or functional food. Recently, we investigate the effect of Monascus pigment extracted from a fungus, Monascus anke, on the alcohol metabolism and blood lipid profile. In the present study, it is observed that Monascus pigment supplemented dietary may have a hepatoprotective effect on rat's liver damage induced with