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Screening for α-amylase Inhibitory Activities of Woody Plants

Lee, Wi Young (Div. Biotechnology, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Park, Young Ki (Div. Biotechnology, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Park, So Young (Div. Biotechnology, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Ahn, Jin Kwon (Div. Biotechnology, Korea Forest Research Institute)

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Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology / v.32, no.6, 2004 , pp. 36-42 More about this Journal

Abstract

Inhibitors of α-amylase are important for the treatment of diabetes and obesity. Using enzyme inhibitor's activity, ethanolic extracts of 87 species in 12 families were screened and compared their inhibitory effect on α-amylase, As a results, we can find that extracts of Distylium racemosum, Acer tegmentosum, Corylapsis veitchiana, Cornus walteri and Corylapsis spicata showed higher α-amylase inhibitory activities than the others and have potential possibility of using control agents for carbohydrate-dependent disease.

Keywords

$\alpha$ -amylase inhibitors; woody plant; Distylium racemasum; Acer tegmentosum; Corylapsis veitchiana; Cornus walteri; Corylapsis spicata;

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