• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.333-339
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• 1996

The root and stem bark of Eleutherococcus spp. is used for the treatment of paralysis, rheumatism, arthritis, diabetes, stamina failure, high blood pressure, etc. This study was con­ducted to identify botanical origins and to select standard variety of Eleutherococcus spp. with analyzing eleutheroside E content(%) of root bark and that of Eleutherococcus senticosus at different collected area, time, part and grown area. The content of eleutheroside E in the root bark was determined by HPLC, and it was 0.1925% in Eleutherococcus senticosus, 0.1103% in E. chiisanensis, 0.0348% in E. koreanum and 0.0236% in E. sieboldianum. In seasonal change of eleutheroside E content, it was higher in autumn product than summer product in Eleutherococcus senticosus. It also was higher in root bark than stem bark in different part. To investigate eleutheroside E content of root bark among different collected local area in E. sen­ticosus, it was high order to Mt. Deokyu, Hokkaido and Mt. Seolak as a 0.1625%. 0.0493% and 0.027 %, respectively. The growth of Eleutherococcus senticosus was good at grown Unbong (altitude 10m), but eleu­theroside E content was high at grown Nogodan (altitude 1, 450m).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.1761-1768
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• 2010

Hypoglycemic effect through activity inhibition of $\alpha$-glucosidase and $\alpha$-amylase was evaluated using leaves of Eleutherococcus senticosu, Eleutherococcus gracilistylus, Eleutherococcus sieboldianus and Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus which belong to Acanthopanax sessiliflorus genus. As a result of measuring $\alpha$-glucosidase activity inhibition, extract of Eleutherococcus gracilistylus showed around 43.38% of activity inhibition compared with acarbose and extract of Eleutherococcus senticosu showed 41.24% inhibitory effect. As a result of measuring $\alpha$-amylase activity inhibition, acarbose showed 73.25% of activity inhibition in 10 mg/mL concentration, and the extract of Eleutherococcus senticosu leaves showed 91.90% higher activity inhibition compared with acarbose. Also, after subjects in a model were induced diabetes with streptozotocin (STZ) intake plant extract from Acanthopanax sessiliflorus for 2 weeks, effect of improving blood glucose level and fat was examined. In all groups with specimen, Eleutherococcus senticosu (T1), Eleutherococcus gracilistylus (T2), Eleutherococcus sieboldianus (T3) and Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus (T4), blood glucose level was significantly decreased compared with that in control group (C). In an experiment of examining changes in fat concentration in blood, total cholesterol content increased in a control group compared with a normal, while in T1, T3 and T4, it decreased significantly compared with the control group. As for HDL-cholesterol, it significantly increased in all diabetes induced groups compared with the normal group, and in T3, it increased the most significantly by 55.61% compared with the control group. In case of LDL-cholesterol, specific difference between the normal group and the control group was not found; however, significant increase was detected in T2 and T3, whereas in T1 and T4, it decreased significantly compared with the control group. As for triglyceride, its concentration increased in the control group like total cholesterol. It decreased 60.16% in T3, 60.80% in T4 and 50.16% in T1 compared with the control group. As a result of measuring the concentration of triglyceride in extracted liver, the control group showed significant increase compared with the normal group, whereas T1 and T2 showed significant decrease compared with the normal group. The above results show that extracts from Acanthopanax sessiliflorus genus are effective for hypoglycemic and improving fat metabolism due to diabetes.

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.186-191
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• 2001

This study was conducted to find the flowering and seed setting characteristics of Eleutherococcus spp. Plants of Eleutherococcus spp. were 7 years old trees reproducted by cutting method using seven species in Gongju. Initial flowering date was foremost by May 9 in E. sieboldianus and hindmost by August 23 in E. divaricatus among seven species. Flowering duration was most short by 20 days in E. sieboldianus and extremely long by 42 days in E. sieboldianus. Number of flowers per plant in E. sieboldianus and E. chilsanensis were higher by 4677 and 4634 than those in E. divaricatus and E. sieboldianus by 780, 84, respectively. The fruit setting percent was the highest in E. sieboldianus by 95% and numbers of fruit setting per cluster showed the highest value by 153 in E. sieboldianus. The seed setting percent was almost same by ${92{\sim}95%}$ in E. sessiliflorus, E. chiisanensis, E. koreanus, E. divaricatus and E. seoulensis, but lower by ${11{\sim}37%}$ in E. senticosus and E. sieboldianus. The dry weight per plant and 100-fruit weight showed the highest value by 270g, 6.7g in E. sessiliflorus, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.104-110
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• 2000

To analyse the genetic relationship and intraspecific variations among the Eleutherococcus senticosus population, the polymerase chain reaction(PCR) was performed total genomic DNAs of 10 E. senticosus collections by random 10 primers. The genetic diversity and genetic distance among 10 collections of Eleutherococcus spp. were used to describe the dendrogram showing phylogenic relationship. Ten collections were classfied into two group(group I, II) at the similarity coefficient value of 0.50. Group I included E. senticosus of Bukhado(Japanese), youngwal(Korea), E. seoulense, and E. chiisanesis while group II included several internal and Russia collection. The range of polymorphism was from 66.7 to 90.9% in 87 amplified DNA fragments. The similarity value of all collections ranged from 0.41 to 0.92. The average of genetic distance was 0.61.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.87-94
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• 2000

Mt. Dae-Am is the branch-range of DMZ located on the $38^{\circ}7'$ N KangWon-Do in South Korea. The resources of important Herbal medicine (medicinal plants) were Phacellanthus tubiflorus (fam.: Orobanchaceae), Ostericum maximowiczii, Dendranthemum zawadskii Herbich f. latifolium, D. zawadskii subsp. acutilobum, D. var. campanulatum, Halenia corniculata (fam.: gentianaceae), Prunus mandshurica var. glabra, Acanthopanax divaricatus f. inermis. A. chiisanense, A. sessiliflorum, Eleutherococcus senticosus, Bupleurum longeradiatum, Heracleum moellendorffii sub-spp. subbipinnatum, Sanicula rubriflora, Spuriopimpinella bracycarpa f. latifolia, Angelico gigas, Artemisia montana, A. stelleriana, Paeonia japonica, Phellodendron amurense, Schizandra chinensis, Menyanthes trifoliata, and Gentiana axillariflora var. coreana, etc.