• Journal of Life Science
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.393-398
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to verify the antifungal properties of various herbal medicines belonging to the Ranunculaceae family and to find an extraction method effective in inhibiting fungal growth. When antifungal activity was measured in a liquid medium with extracts obtained by either hot water extraction or organic solvent extraction of the herbal medicines Clematis apiifolia, Coptis chinensis, and Pusatilla chinensis, effective results were obtained from the chloroform extract. In addition, fungal growth inhibition experiments were performed on unicellular fungi, Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, and Candida lusitaniae, and on filamentous fungi, such as Pythium ultimum, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Fusarium oxysporum, using disk diffusion experiments on solid media. It was confirmed that P. chinensis extract has excellent antifungal properties against Candida spp. and C. apiifolia extract against filamentous mold. Finally, GC-MS analysis was performed to explore the useful antifungal substances present in the extract. As a result of the study, thurbergenone from C. apiifolia and 16-hydroxycleroda-3, 13(14)-dien-15, 16-olide (16-HCDO) from C. chinensis were confirmed as antifungal candidates. In conclusion, it was confirmed that C. apiifolia, C. chinensis, and P. chinensis have antifungal activity against various fungi, and in GC-MS analysis, all herbal medicines were confirmed to have different antifungal candidates. These results indicate that the Ranunculaceae family has evolved in several directions for fungal resistance traits.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.103-106
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• 1987

Two diterpene alkaloids were isolated from Aconitum napiforme which is a native plant in Korea, and identified as hypaconitine and mesaconitine by UV, IR, MS and NMR data.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.215-218
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• 1989

A new aromatic amide isolated from the hexane soluble fraction of the root of Aconitum pseudolaeve var. erectum has been characterized as methyl-N-(2-acetaminobenzoyl) anthranilate on the basis of spectroscopic data, and a monoglyceride was also isolated and identified as glycerol-1-hexadecanoate from the fraction.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.181-187
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• 1988

$Two\;C_{19}-diterpene\;alkaloids$ were isolated from the root of Aconitum psedolaeve var. erectum Nakai, and identified as lycoctonine and septentriodine by UV, IR, MS and NMR data.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.177-180
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• 1988

A diterpene alkaloid and a disaccharide were isolated from root of Aconitum uchiyamai, and identified as mesaconitine and sucrose respectively by UV, IR, MS, and NMR data.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.5-10
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• 1994

From the methanolic extract of aerial parts of Clematis koreana var. umbrosa, one new triterpenoidal saponin, 3-O-${\beta}$-D-xylopyranosyl(1-3)-${\alpha}$-L-arabinopyranosyl oleanolic acid 28-O-${\alpha}$-L-rhamnopyranosyl(1-4)-${\beta}$-glucopyranosyl(1-6)-${\beta}$-glucopyranosyl ESTER, along with five known aromatic compounds and two known triterpenoidal saponins were isolated.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.57-72
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• 1978

The constituents of Ranunculaceae plants are summerized from more than one hundred of papers. Fifteen steroidal alkaloids, thirty two of terpenoids (diterpenes and triterpenes), fifty four isoquinoline alkaloids are recorded. Thirty three papaverines, eighteen berberines, and three hydrastines belong to isoquinoline group. Besides, of alkaloids a number of glycosides are also found. Adonis glycoside, famous cardiotonics, from Adonis and cyanogenin glycoside and calthoside D were identified from the leaves of Thalictrum aquilegifolium and Caltha silvestris. Anemonin, the irritating substance, found in Pulsatilla grandiz $W_{ENDER}$. Kaempf-erol and dihydrokaempferol were isolated and identified from the leaves of Clematis brachyura ^M_{AXIMOWICZ}$ by author in 1968.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.91-105
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• 1990

The plants medicinal resources of Mt. Wol-chul were investigated 8 times from July, 1988 to July 1990. In orther to analyze the vegetation of Wol-chulmountain area, medical wild plants structure and distribution. Medical wildplants of Wol-chul mourltain consisted of 11'0 familis, 338 species in all. Theresources of important herb drugs were Polypodiaceae, Graminea, Liliaceae ,Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae, Brassicaceae, Rosaceae, Apiaceae, Labiatae, Com-positae .

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.207-212
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• 2000

The root extract of pulsatilla koreana has been used as antibacterial, antiparasitic and anti-inflam-matory analgesic agents in Traditional Medicine in Korea. Thus anti-inflammatory and analgesic actions of the methanol and water extracts of the root were investigated by administration in oral and intravenous route. From the results, it is concluded that the extracts exhibited the potent anti-inflammatory and analgesic actions in intravenous administration, but did not show the actions in oral administration in animals.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.44-47
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• 1998

From the 60% aqueous methanolic fraction of Moutan Cortex Radicis two hyaluronidase inhibitors were isolated and their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Their structures were identified as paeoniflorin (com-pound I) and oxypaeoniflorin (compound II). Compound I and II exhibited hyaluronidase inhibitory activities with $IC_{50}$ of 1.71 and 1.73mM, respectively.