• 농약과학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2002

The insecticide constituents of several Celastraceae family plants including Celastrus angulatus, Celastrus orbiculatus, Celastrus flagellaris, Euonymus verrucosides, Euonymus forunei and Euonymus phellomana were studied by bioassay-guided fractionation. All structures of sesquiterpene polyol esters and alkaloids have been elucidated by UV, IR, MS, NMR and x-ray diffraction evidences. These compounds exhibited insecticidal, antifeedant and narcotic activities against Mythimna separata.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2011

Celastrus orbiculatus has been widely used as a traditional medicine for the treatment of many diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and odontalgia. In the present study, anti-metastatic activity of a methanolic extract from C. orbiculatus (MCO) was studied. A gelatin zymographic assay revealed that MCO has potent inhibitory effects on MMP-2 and MMP-9 activities in B16F10 melanoma cells. Moreover, MCO attenuated MMP expression via down-regulation of NF-${\kappa}$B translocation to the nucleus. Melanoma cell migration and invasion were also down-regulated by MCO. In addition, MCO significantly suppressed lung metastasis in an in vivo model. These results strongly suggest that MCO may possibly be used as a valuable anti-metastatic agent for cancer treatment.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.493-499
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• 2007

Celastrus orbiculatus (CO) has been used as a traditional herb medicine to treat fever, chill, joint pain, edema, rheumatoid arthritis and bacterial infection in China and Korea. In this study, we investigated anticarcinogenic effects of Celastrus orbiculatus (CO). CO was extracted with methanol (COM), and then further fractionated into four different types: methanol (COMM), hexane (COMH), butanol (COMB) and aqueous (COMA) partition layers. We determined the cytotoxicity of these four partitions in four kind of cancer cell lines, such as HepG2, MCF-7, HT29 and B16F10 Cells by MTT assay. Among various partition layers of CO, the COMM showed the strongest cytotoxic effects on cancer cell lines we used. We also observed quinone reductase (QR) induced effects in all partition layers of CO on HepG2 cells. The QR induced effects of COMM on HepG2 cells at 80 ${\mu}$ g/mL concentration indicated 3.28 to a control value of 1.0. The COMM showed the highest induction activity of quinone reductase on HepG2 cells among the other partition layers. Although further studies are needed, the present work suggests that CO may be a chemopreventive agent for the treatment of human cells.

• 농약정보
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• 제15권5호통권122호
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• pp.84-85
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• 1994

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.94-103
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• 2008

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether celastrol, the triterpenoid component of Celastrus orbiculatus, offers neuroprotection against Parkinson's disease (PD) in mice administered 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6- tetrahydropyridine(MPTP). Methods: We examined how celastrol affected MPTP-induced neuronal loss of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-positive dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) in the midbrain of mice. C57BL/6J mice were divided into four groups: (1) saline-saline, (2) saline-celastrol, (3) MPTP-saline, and (4) MPTP-celastrol. The mice were injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) with four administrations of MPTP (18mg/kg) at 2 h intervals and then i.p. administered celastrol (3mg/kg) two times at 12 h after last celastrol administration. Expression of TH on the SNpc of brain tissues were analyzed at 7 days after the treatments by immunohistochemistry and Western blot. Results: Immunohistochemical analysis using TH antibody showed that celastrol provided significantly protective effects against MPTP-induced loss of TH-positive dopaminergic neurons in the SNpc region of the midbrain of mice. Our Western blot study also showed that celastrol significantly inhibits the MPTP-induced neuronal damage via the up-regulation of TH protein levels in MPTP mice. Conclusions: The present results suggest that it may be possible to use celastrol for the prevention of nigral degenerative disorders including PD, caused by exposure to toxic substances.

• 생약학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.174-178
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• 1997

Methanol extracts from 450 plants were screened for muttidrug-resistance reversing activity using drug sensitive KB-3-1 and multidrug-resistant KB-Vl cells. Among them, the extracts of Cynanchum wilfordii, Torilis japonica, Celastrus orbiculatus, Melia toosendan and Teminialia chebula strongly potentiated vinblastine cytotoxicity in KB-Vl cells. But their cytotoxicities to both sensitive KB-3-1 and resistant KB-Vl cells were in the same order of magnitude. These results indicate that the above samples would contain the active principles which do not exert their ativity solely by cytotoxicity.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2009

본 연구는 천연소재용 이용하여 식품 저장성과 안전성 향상을 위한 식품첨가제나 보존제등의 개발 가능성을 알아보고자 민간에서 사용되어 온 노박덩굴 분획물에 대한 항산화 효과 및 항균활성을 측정하였다. DPPH free radical 소거활성을 측정하여 항산화 활성효과를 알아 본 결과 COMB층이 $39.75{\mu}g/ml$에서 50%의 DPPH free radical의 소거활성을 보여 가장 높은 항산화 효과를 나타내었다. ROS 제거활성 측정결과에서도 COMB층이 가장 높은 항산화 효과를 나타내었으며 $4.73{\mu}g/ml$에서 50%의 ROS 제거 활성을 나타내어 positive control로 사용한 trolox와 거의 유사한 제거활성을 보였다. 그리고 $ONOO^-$ 제거활성 역시 COMB층이 가장 높게 나타났으며, 특히 positive control인 penicillamine 의 IC50값인 $4.34{\mu}g/ml$과 비교하였을 때 더 높은 제거 활성 효과를 나타내어 높은 항산화 효과를 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 paper disc method를 이용한 항균효과 실험 결과, 사용한 모든 균주에서 COMH층을 제외한 COMM, COMB 및 COMA층이 항균활성을 나타내었다. 특히 bacillus subtilis에서는 COMH층을 제외한 모든 층에서 농도에 비례하여 항균력이 점차 증가하였으며, 전반적으로 COMM층과 COMB층에서 높은 항균활성을 나타냄을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과를 종합해보면 항산화효과는 노박덩굴의 butanol 분획층인 COMB층에서 가장 높았으며 그 다음으로 COMM 순이었다. 항균 효과는 사용한 모든 균주에서 methanol 분획층인 COMM 층이 전반적으로 높은 항균활성이 나타났으며 COMB층이 다음으로 높은 항균활성을 나타내었다. 이 상의 결과로 노박덩굴의 butanol 분획층인 COMB층과 methanol 분획층인 COMM 중에서 항산화 활성과 항균력을 나타내는 효과적인 생리 활성물질이 함유되어 있을 것으로 사료되어 지며, 앞으로 더욱 심도 있는 연구용 통하여 천연 항산화제, 천연식품보조제 및 천연 항균제등의 기능성 식품으로서의 활용가능성을 기대할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.271-275
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• 2007

Naturally occurring substances are important biomedical resources with low toxicity and ethnopharmacology-based efficacy. Four out of 45 extracts (Celastrus orbiculatus, Cercis chinensis, Stephanadra incisa, and Weigela subsessilis) prepared from the bark of Korea Forest plants exhibited more than 50% of inhibition on $TNF-{\alpha}$ production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated RAW264.7 cells at $100\;{\mu}g/m{\ell}$. In particular, potential inhibitory components of 4 extracts showed more than 50% inhibition seemed to be concentrated in methylene chloride (MC) fraction from C. orbiculatus, in ethyl acetate (EtOAc) fraction from C. chinensis and in hexane (Hx) fraction from S. incisa, whereas inhibitory activities of W. subssilis were broadly seen in non-polar solvent fractions such as Hx, MC and EtOAc. Therefore, our results suggest that extracts from C. orbiculatus, C. chinensis, S. incisa and W. subsessilis may be developed as a therapeutic remedy against $TNF-{\alpha}-mediated$ diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or further fractionated to isolate active components having $antiTNF-{\alpha}$ inhibitory activity.

• 혜화의학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.445-448
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• 1995

Although significant progress has been made during the past four decades in the treatment of human neoplastic disease, effective chemotherapeutic treatments are nevertheless far from satisfactory to patients suffering from cancer, particularly to those with the stomach cancer which is most prevalent in Korea. To find out the effective anticancer drugs, especially human stomach cancer, we tested cytotoxic activities of several medicinal herbs against human stomach cancer cell line, SNU-1. Evodia officinalis, Melia toosendan, Sinomenium acutum, Galla Haeepensis, Celastrus orbiculatus and Taxus caespitosa showed a significant cytotoxic activities.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.174-178
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• 2000

인체 세포의 세포주기를 조절하는 Cyclin-dependent Kinase(CDK) 중 CDK4/Cyclin D1 효소 저해 물질을 찾기 위하여 국내에 자생하는 37과 87종의 식물 추출물을 탐색한 결과, 50%$(5\;{\mu}g/ml)$ 이상의 CDK4/Cyclin D1 호소 저해활성을 보인 것은 단삼(Salvia miltiorrhiza), 노박덩굴(Celastrus orbiculatus), 삼백초(Saurus chinensis), 목단(Paeonia suffruticosa) 및 오이풀(Sanguisorba officinalis)이었다. 이들 중에서 목단과 오이풀 추출물이 가장 높은 56%의 저해율을 각각 나타내었다. 또한 추출물에서 활성물질을 추출 정제하여 2차원 NMR 등을 포함한 각종 기기분석을 통하여 cryptotanshinone으로 동정하였다.