• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.351-357
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• 2006

Polygoni Radix (Polygonaceae) has been used as renal disoder hematopoietic, menstrual irregularity and antiaging in Korean folk medicine. Specially aerial parts has been used for insomnia and sedative agent. In order to investigate the efficacy of antioxidant activity on these aerial parts, the bio-activity guided fraction and isolation of physiologically active substance were performed. H$_2$O, 30%, 60%, 100% MeOH were examined antioxidant activity by DPPH method. It was revealed that 30%, 60% MeOH fractions have significantly antioxidant activity. From 60% MeOH fraction, six known flavonoid glycosides (quercetin, quercetin 3-O-${\beta}$-D-galactopyranosyl-4'-O-glucopyrano side-3'-methyl ether, quercetin 3-O-${\alpha}$-L-rhannopyranoside, quercetin 3-O- ${\alpha}$-L-rhamnopyranoside-4'-methylethor, quorcetin 3-O-${\beta}$-D-galactopyranoside, quercetin 3-O-${\beta}$-D-galactopyranoside) and 3,4-Oihydrocinnarnic acid were isolated. To investigate the antioxidant activities of each com-pounds, we measured radical scavening activity with DPPH method and anti-lipid peroxidative efficacy on low density lipo-protein (LDL) with TBARS assay and anti-acetylcholinestrase activity with Ellman's Test. Four compounds (ll, IV Vl, Vll) of quercetin glycosides showed significant activity.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.423-429
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• 2017

Hair color is determined by kind and amount of melanin. Melanocyte mainly synthesizes melanin from L-tyrosine by stimulation of ultra violet. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in greying hair. Polygonum multiflorum radix has been reported to inhibit the aging process that black color of hair is turned into grey color. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Polygoni multiflorium radix ethanol extract (PMEE) on melanin synthesis related to black hair growth. In anti-oxidant experiment, PMEE decreased DPPH radical and increased reducing power, indicating that PMEE could eliminate ROS involved in greying hair. PMEE decreased cell viability in a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, the effect of PMEE on the production of melanin was determined by DOPA assay and tyrosinase activity. PMEE increased tyrosinase activity and promoted melanin synthesis. In addition, the expression levels of tyrosinase, tyrosinase related protein-1 (TRP-1), tyrosinase related protein-2 (TRP-2) and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF), as well as anti-oxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD-3) and catalase were examined using western blot analysis. The expression levels of SOD-3 and catalase were decreased due to the enhanced antioxidant activity of PMEE. In particular, PMEE increased the expression levels of tyrosinase and TRP-2. These results suggest that PMEE could promote melanin synthesis that involved in tuning gray hair into black hair.