• Journal of Medicine and Life Science
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2018

Previous studies have suggested that Citrus fruits might suppress the proliferation of various cancer cells. However, little is known about any specific ingredients in the extract of Citrus fruits to exert its anti-proliferative activity in cancer cells. The present study aimed to identify the active ingredients in Citrus fruits to suppress the proliferation of rat hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Among tested compounds, two polymethoxylated flavones (nobiletin and tangeritin) showed significant anti-proliferative activity whereas other compounds (synephrine, rutin, hesperidin) did not. Interestingly, nobiletin as well as tangeritin also decreased the protein amount of gluconeogenic enzymes, PEPCK and G6Pase. The possible involvement of gluconeogenic activity in the proliferation of hepatocellulacarcinoma cells are further to be investigated.

• 식물병과 농업
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.100-104
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• 1999

A total of 65 isolates of Penicillium were isolated from decayed post-harvest fruits of apple pear citrus and grape. The Penicillium species isolated from the apple were idnetified as P. aurantiogriseum and P. expansum those from the pear were P. crustosum and P. expansum and those from the grape were P. aurantiogriseum and P. expansum, From decayed citrus fruits. P. digitatum and P. italicum were isolated. Citrinin and patulin from these species in the YES(yeast extract sucrose) broth were extracted with ethyl acetate and purified by thin-layer chromatography(TLC) and high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) Among 51 isolates of Penicillium from apple pear and grape 7 isolates produced citrinin 13 isolates produces patulin and 12 isolates produced citrinin and patulin also. All 14 isolates of Penicillium from citrus produced only patulin.

• 대한본초학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2021

Objective : This study was designed to investigate effect of immature fruits from Citrus unshiu Markovich to mature them on antioxidative and antiaging-related enzyme activities in vitro. Methods : Fruits from Open field-cultivated C. unshiu Markovich (ripe and unripe fruits of Citri) made a purchase in Jeju island. We measured total polyphenol and flavonoid contents in mature C. unshiu Markovich (MC) and immature C. unshiu Markovich (IMC) 70% ethanol extract. DPPH free radical, ABTS radical, and hydroxyl radical scavenging activities in both extracts were determined. Also, reducing power, SOD-like activities, elastase inhibition, and collagenase inhibition activities of these extract were assayed at 5, 1, 0.5, and 0.1 mg/㎖. Results : The total polyphenol contents in the ethanol extract of IMC were higher than those of MC (26.99 ± 0.89 mg/TAEg). And total flavonoid contents in them were very similar to both extract (MC; 7.25 ± 0.4 mg/RUEg and IMC; 7.44 ± 0.18 mg/RUEg). DPPH free radical scavenging activities, ABTS radical scavenging capacity, reducing power, and SOD-like activities of IMC-treated group showed significant increase compared to those of MC group in all treated concentrations. Particularly, DPPH free radical scavenging and elastase inhibition activities in IMC-treated group at 5 mg/㎖ showed similar with positive control group. Besides, IMC extract at 5 mg/㎖ concentration surpassed positive control (BHA or Vit. C) in SOD-like activities and ABTS radical scavenging capacity. Conclusion : These results suggest that IMC ethanol extract may be used as a natural antioxidant and a antiaging material for development of functional foods and cosmeceuticals.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.191-196
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• 1999

A multiresidue analytical method was developed for eight acaricides including benzoximate, clofentezine, fenazaquin, fenothiocarb, fenpyroximate, hexythiazox, pyridaben, and tebufenpyrad in four major fruits using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). All the confounds were extracted with acetone from apple, pear, grape, and citrus samples. The extract was diluted with saline water, and n-heaxane partition was followed to recover the acaricides. Florisil column chromatography was employed to further purify the sample extract. HPLC with ultraviolet absorption detection, using an octadecylsilyl column under the isocratic mobile phase of acetonitrile/water mixture, was successfully applied to separate and quantitate all the compounds in the purified extract. Recoveries of the eight acaricides from for fortified samples ranged 86.4~97.0%. Relative standard deviations of the analytical method were all less than 10%. Detection limits of the method were in the range of 0.02~0.05 mg/kg. The proposed method was reproducible and sensitive enough to evaluate the terminal residue of the eight acaricides in the fruit harvest.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.427-436
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• 2012

Targeted therapy has been a very promising strategy of drug development research. Many molecular mechanims of diseases have been known to be regulated by abundance of proteins, such as receptors and hormones. Chemoprevention for treatment and prevention of diseases are continuously developed. Pre-clinical and clinical studies in chemoprevention field yielded many valuable data in preventing the onset of disease and suppressing the progress of their growth, making chemoprevention a challenging and a very rational strategy in future researches. Natural products being rich of flavonoids are those fruits belong to the genus citrus. Ethanolic extract of Citrus reticulata and Citrus aurantiifolia peels showed anticarcinogenic, antiproliferative, co-chemotherapeutic and estrogenic effects. Several examples of citrus flavonoids that are potential as chemotherapeutic agents are tangeretin, nobiletin, hesperetin, hesperidin, naringenin, and naringin. Those flavonoids have been shown to possess inhibition activity on certain cancer cells' growth through various mechanisms. Moreover, citrus flavonoids also perform promising effect in combination with several chemotherapeutic agents against the growth of cancer cells. Some mechanisms involved in those activities are through cell cycle modulation, antiangiogenic effect, and apoptosis induction.Previous studies showed that tangeretin suppressed the growth of T47D breast cancer cells by inhibiting ERK phosphorylation. While in combination with tamoxifen, doxorubicin, and 5-FU, respectively, it was proven to be synergist on several cancer cells. Hesperidin and naringenin increased cytotoxicitity of doxorubicin on MCF-7 cells and HeLa cells. Besides, citrus flavonoids also performed estrogenic effect in vivo. One example is hesperidin having the ability to decrease the concentration of serum and hepatic lipid and reduce osteoporosis of ovariectomized rats. Those studies showed the great potential of citrus fruits as natural product to be developed as not only the source of co-chemotherapeutic agents, but also phyto-estrogens. Therefore, further study needs to be conducted to explore the potential of citrus fruits in overcoming cancer.

• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2005년도 춘계 학술발표대회
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• pp.41-51
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• 2005

We examined whether extracts from 14 local citrus spp. on Jeju Island (Korea) contained chemosensitizing activity that would increase the cytotoxic effect of vincristine(VCR) in drug-resistant cancer cells. We report that methanol extracts from fruits and flowers of some species had a chemosensitizing effect that reversed P-glycoprotein (Pgp)-mediated multidrug resistance (MDR). Using drug-sensitive AML-2/WT and drug-resistant AML-2/D100 in the absence of VCR in human acute myelogenous leukemia cells we found that fruit or flower extracts alone generally had low cytotoxicity $(IC_{50}>200\;{\mu}g/ml)$. In studies examining the effect of extracts on 120 ng/ml VCR cytotoxicity in drug-resistant AML-2/D100 cells, we found that immature fruit extracts had greater chemosensitizing activity than either extracts from mature fruit or flower. Of the 14 species examined, the immature fruit extract from Inchangkyool (Citrus ichangiensis) showed the hishest chemosensitizing index(CI) valus. Immature fruit extracts of Hongkyool(C. tachibana), Byungkyool(C. platymamma), Cheongkyool(C. nippokoreana) and Jinkyool (C. sunki) also strongly potentiated VCR cytotoxicity in AML-2/D100 cells. The chemosensitizing effect of peel extracts was 2-10-fold that of whole fruit extracts from Hongkyool (C. tachibana), Byungkyool (C. platymamma) and Inchangkyool (C. inchangiensis). The CI values for flower extracts were higher than those for mature fruit extracts, but lower than those for immature fruit extracts. These results indicate that immature citrus fruits contain compounds that do not exert their activity solely through cytotoxicity. In particular, Incahngkyool (C. inchangiensis), Byungkyool(C.platymamma), Cheongkyool(C. nippokoreana) and Hongkyool (C. tahibana) may be useful sources of chemosensitizing compounds.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1553-1556
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• 2013

본 연구는 재래감귤종의 하나인 진귤 과피 추출물이 산화적 스트레스에 의한 MMP-1의 발현 조절에 미치는 효과를 확인하기 위해 수행되었다. $H_2O_2$를 피부세포에 처리하여 산화적 스트레스를 유도한 결과 노화 유발에 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 알려진 MMP-1의 발현량이 증가하였고 진귤과피 추출물의 처리는 산화적 스트레스에 의해 증가된 MMP-1의 활성을 현저히 감소시켰다. 이러한 활성 조절이 ERK signaling을 통해 조절되는지 확인한 결과 산화적 스트레스에 의해 증가된 ERK의 인산화는 진귤과피 추출물의 처리로 억제되었고 MEK 억제재인 U0216을 처리하였을 경우 MMP-1의 활성도 또한 저해시키는 것을 확인하였다. 이상의 결과로 보아 $H_2O_2$에 의해 유도된 산화적 스트레스는 MMP-1의 발현을 촉진시켰고 진귤과피 추출물은 ERK 신호전달 경로를 통해 MMP-1의 발현을 조절하는 것으로 보여진다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2000

An analytical method was developed to determine abamectin and milbemectin residues in apple, pear, and citrus using HPLC with ultraviolet absorption detection. Abamectin and milbemectin were extracted with methanol from apple, pear, and citrus samples. The extract was diluted with saline water and dichloromethane partition was followed to recover the compounds from the aqueous phase. Florisil column chromatography and aminopropyl solid-phase extraction were employed as cleanup methods to remove most of co-extractives from the sample extract. Reverse-phase HPLC using an octadecylsilyl column was successfully applied to separate and quantitate abamectin and milbemectin residues in sample extracts at the wavelength of 245 nm. Recoveries of abamectin and milbemectin from fortified samples ranged 80.4~90.3% and 90.9~96.8%, respectively. Relative standard deviations of the analytical method were less than 10% for both acaricides. Detection limit of the analytical method was 0.003 mg/kg sample for all the analytes. The proposed method was reproducible and sensitive enough to evaluate terminal residues of abamectin and milbemectin in apple, pear, and citrus.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.255-258
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 도축장에서 분리된 Listeria monocytogenes를 저해할 수 있는 식물성 항균 물질을 탐색하고, 각 항균 물질의 최소살균농도(MBC)를 확인하였다. 잠재적인 항균 물질로 자몽종자 추출물, 감귤류 추출물, 생강 추출물, 배 추출물, 매실 농축액, 도라지 추출물, 대추 추출물, 오미자 추출물을 선정하였고, 대상 균주로는 국내 도축장에서 분리한 15 개의 L. monocytogenes 균주를 혼합하여 사용하였다. MBC 확인 결과, 최대 $4.0{\mu}g/mL$ 농도의 생강 추출물, 배 추출물, 매실 농축액, 도라지 추출물, 대추 추출물, 오미자 추출물은 고농도의 L. monocytogenes (7 Log CFU/mL)에 대해 균 저해 효과가 전혀 나타나지 않았다. 반면, 7 Log CFU/mL의 L. monocytogenes에 대한 자몽종자 추출물과 감귤류 추출물의 MBC는 $0.002{\mu}g/mL$인 것으로 확인되었다. 3 Log CFU/mL의 L. monocytogenes에 대한 MBC를 시험해 본 결과, 자몽종자 추출물과 감귤류 추출물의 MBC는 $0.001{\mu}g/mL$로 나타났다. 이상의 결과로 볼 때 자몽종자 추출물과 감귤류 추출물은 L. monocytogenes를 제어하기 위해 적용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.214-219
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 제주산 청과즙과 제주 재래귤인 당유자 과즙 내의 기능성 성분을 대량 추출하여 새로운 타입의 고기능성 감귤 음료를 개발코자 기능성 연구를 실시하였다. 관능 검사를 통해 청과 착즙액 30%에 KILO Prep을 이용하여 얻은 당유자 유래 플라보노이드 농축액 15%를 포함하는 Citrus-F 음료를 제조하였다. 새롭게 제조된 Citrus-F를 경구 투여하여 쥐 체중의 변화를 관찰한 결과 HF diet(고지방사료)와 Citrus-F를 병행하여 급이한 군의 경우 급이 7주차부터 HF diet만 단독으로 급이한 군에 비하여 뚜렷하게 체중이 감소되어 그 효과는 실험이 끝나는 9주째까지 지속되었다. 또한 Citrus-F가 혈중지질에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 경구 투여한 쥐를 대상으로 한 혈청검사에서 혈중 지방 함량은 Citrus-F 처리군에서 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 특히 급이 시점을 초기부터 시작한 경우에는 triglycerid의 수치는 감소하였지만 total cholesterol과 HDL-cholesterol의 수치에는 별다른 영행을 미치지 못했다. 그러나 5주 후부터 0.1% Citrus-F를 급이한 처리군에서 triglyceride, total cholesterol과 HDL-cholesterol의 수치가 모두 감소함을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과 당유자 유래 플라보노이드 농축액을 15% 포함하는 고기능성 Citrus-F 음료는 비만 및 각종 혈중 지질 관련 질병의 예방에 효과가 있을 것으로 사료된다.