• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.436-439
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• 1998

In order to find out anti-platelet activating factor (PAF) from natural resources, Korean medicinal plants used for the treatments of peripheral circulation disorders were tested for their possible protective effects on PAF-induced anaphylactic shock. From the above screening, the methanol extract of Gentiana scabra showed a potent antagonistic activity against PAF. Water suspension of the extract was partitioned with $CH_2$$CI_2$ and EtOAc, successively. The EtOAc fraction which showed the highest activity was chromatographed on silica gel to yield 6 fractions. From the fraction which showed higher PAF-antagonistic activity than the other fractions, compound 1 was isolated by recrystallization. On the basis of spectral data, compound 1 was identified as 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid glucose ester. The compound prevented the mice from the PAF-induced death at a dose of 300 $\mu\textrm{g}$/mouse.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.534-538
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• 2000

A phenolic glucoside and two steroidal sapogenins were isolated from the aerial part of Solanum Iyratum (Solanaceae). They were identified as 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid glucose ester (1), ${\Delta}^{3,5}$-deoxytigogenin ((25R)-spirosta-3,5-diene) (2), diosgenin (($3{\beta}$, 25R)-spirost-5-en-3-ol) (3), respectively by several spectroscopic methods including IR, MS and NMR. Compound 1 has not been previously isolated from Solanaceae plants. Compounds 2 and 3 are isolated from S. Iyratum for the first time in the present study.