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Immunostimulating and Anticancer Activities of Hot-water Extracts from Acanthopanax senticosus and Glycyrrhiza uralensis  

Hwang, Jong-Hyun (Division of Food and Biotechnology, Chungju National University)
Suh, Hyung-Joo (Department of Food and Nutrition, Korea University)
Yu, Kwang-Won (Division of Food and Biotechnology, Chungju National University)
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Food Science and Biotechnology / v.17, no.6, 2008 , pp. 1185-1190 More about this Journal
Abstract
When 10 kinds of herbal medicines were fractionated into hexane, MeOH, cold-water, and hot-water extracts, hot-water extracts from Acanthopanax senticosus (AS), Glycyrrhiza uralensis (GU), Cichorium intybus (CI), and Polygonatum odoratum (PO) showed the potent intestinal immune system modulating activity (1.72-, 1.62-, 1.60-, and 1.53-fold of control at $100{\mu}g/mL$, respectively). Especially, hot-water extracts from AS (215% compared with the control) and GU (187%) also had macrophages stimulating activity and mitogenic activity of splenocytes (7.1- and 6.5-fold) at $100{\mu}g/mL$. In addition, the effects of hot-water extracts from herbal medicines on anticancer activities were studied in mice. Hot-water extracts from AS and GU enhanced cytotoxicity of natural killer cell against cancer cell, Yac-1 (37 and 34% cytotoxicity) at E/T ratio 100:1, and colon 26-M3.1 cancer cell lines had significantly inhibited (82.1 and 75.2%) in experimental lung metastasis. These results suggest that hot-water extracts from A. senticosus and G. uralensis can be used as biological response modifiers to stimulate immune system and inhibit tumor.
Keywords
herbal medicine; hot-water extract; immunostimulating activity; anticancer activity;
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