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The Anticaries Activity of Hot Water Extracts from Foeniculum vulgare  

Kim, Sang-Moo (S&D Co. Ltd.)
Choi, Chang-Hyuk (Jung-Ang Dental Clinic)
Kim, Jang-Won (Division of Biotechnology, Kangwon National University)
Won, Se-Ra (Division of Biotechnology, Kangwon National University)
Rhee, Hae-Ik (Division of Biotechnology, Kangwon National University)
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Applied Biological Chemistry / v.51, no.1, 2008 , pp. 84-87 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this research, we screened for glucosyltransferase (GTase) inhibitors that effectively prevent the dental caries from 420 kinds of boiled water extracts of herbs and wild plants and searched for GTase inhibitory activities. Among them, 13 kinds of hot water extracts had high GTase inhibitory activities and especially, we focused on Foeniculum vulgare which showed the highest inhibitory activity on GTase. The boiled water extract of F. vulgare was stable at high temperature and showed as a mixed type of competitive and uncompetitive inhibition kinetic behavior. It did not have antibacterial effect on Streptococcus mutans and had inhibitory activity on GTase. Specially, in the clinical trial, the group treated by boiled water extract of F. vulgare showed more decrease of plague index at 4.8 point than untreated group. These results suggested that boiled water extract of F. vulgare can effectively suppress the plague formation as it inhibits the GTase activity.
Keywords
Dental caries; Foeniculum vulgare; GTase inhibitor;
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