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http://dx.doi.org/10.3746/jkfn.2004.33.8.1246

Protective Effects of Plant Extracts on the Hepatocytes of Rat Treated with Carbon Tetrachloride  

Ham, Young-Kook (Dept. of Wanter Quality Research, Seoul Waterworks Research Institute)
Kim, Sung-Wan (Div. of Life Sciences, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition / v.33, no.8, 2004 , pp. 1246-1251 More about this Journal
Abstract
To investigate the effects of plant extracts on the protection against liver damage by $CCl_4$ in rat, two kinds of experiment were performed, firstly by the primary hepatocyte culture and secondly by the animal feeding. The primary hepatocyte culture with the extracts of pine leaf, soybean sprout and mugwort showed significantly low activities (p<0.01∼0.05) of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT), indicating an excellent protective effect against liver damage by $CCl_4$. In the second experiment, the microsomal malondialdehyde (MDA) contents of the above same groups were also significantly lower (p<0.01) than the $CCl_4$-treated group without plant extracts, but shiitake showed less effect. Among four kinds of plant extracts, extracts of pine leaf and mugwort showed also much higher activities of the microsomal cytochrome P-450 in comparison to soybean sprout and shiitake. In the test of xanthine oxidase (XOD) activity, all of three groups except shiitake showed significantly low activities (p<0.01). These consistent results in vitro and in vivo suggest that the extracts of pine leaf, soybean sprout and mugwort may have strong protective effects against liver damage induced by the potential toxicants such as $CCl_4$.
Keywords
plant extracts; $CCl_4$-toxicity; malondialdehyde; cytochrome P-450; xanthine oxidase;
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