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http://dx.doi.org/10.3746/jkfn.2006.35.7.828

Effect of New Remedies Mainly Comprised of Hovenia dulcis Thunb on Alcohol Degradation and Liver Protection in Sprague Dawley Male Rats  

Ko, Byoung-Seob (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
Jang, Jin-Sun (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Hong, Sang-Mee (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Kim, Dong-Wha (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Sung, So-Ra (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Park, Hae-Rae (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Lee, Ji-Eun (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Jeon, Won-Kyung (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
Park, Sun-Min (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition / v.35, no.7, 2006 , pp. 828-834 More about this Journal
Abstract
We investigated whether two-kinds of mixture (NHDT-1 and NHDT-2) mainly composed of Hovenia dulcis Thunb had beneficial actions for alcohol and acetaldehyde degradation in acute alcohol treatment and liver protection from fatty liver induced by chronic alcohol administration. In acute alcohol degradation experiment, serum alcohol and acetaldehyde concentrations exhibited lower 1, 3 and 5 hours after taking 3 g ethanol per kg body weight in NHDT-1 treated rats, but not NHDT-2 including ginseng. On the contrast to the acute effect on alcohol degradation, the long-term alcohol administration revealed that NHDT-2, not NHDT-1, protected the increase in serum concentration of aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotrasferase and ${\gamma}-triglyceride$ metabolism similar to the rats not consuming alcohol, leading to decreased triglyceride accumulation in blood and liver. In liver morphological study, NHDT-1 preserved the regular hepatocyte morphology, decreased fat accumulation and reduced sinusoidal leukocyte infiltration in hepatocytes. In conclusion, NHDT-1 plays an important role in alcohol and acetaldehyde degradation without protecting liver damage while NHDT-2 works as hepatocyte protector from alcohol mediated damage.
Keywords
alcohol; acetaldehyde; liver damage; AST; ALT; liver morphology; fatty liver;
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