• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.265-269
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• 2007

There is significant interest in finding new sources of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors for use in treating Alzheimer's disease, since only a few AChE inhibitors are available for clinical use, such as galanthamine, physostigmine, and tacrine. The ethanol extract of Chrysanthemum indicum Linne flowers was analyzed and found to markedly decrease AChE activity. Acaciin and $acacetin-7-O-{\beta}-D-galactopyranoside$ were identified as the active compounds responsible for the AChE inhibition by using an activity-guided fractionation strategy. The relationship between structure and activity for five flavonoids (acaciin, $acacetin-7-O-{\beta}-D-galactopyranoside$, luteolin, and two other commercially available flavonoids, i.e., apigenin and acacetin) was also investigated, revealing that the presence of methoxy groups at C-4' in the B ring and a sugar at O-7 in ring A appear to be essential for the inhibition of AChE.

• 약학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.143-149
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• 1999

The phytochemical studies of the leaves of Caragana chamlagu were carried out as a sieries of the investigation of medicinal resources. The roots of Caragana chamlagu have been used as neuralgia, arthritis and migraine in the folk medicines of Korea. The methanolic extract of the leaves of Caragana chamlagu was suspended with water and then separated with chloroform. Compound I was isolated from precipitates of these water fraction by recrystalization. The aqueous fraction of MeOH extract was performed to column chromatography on Amberlite XAD-4 and Sephadex LH-20, and three compounds, compound II, compound III, and compound IV were isolated. The structures of the four compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic data of $^1H-NMR$, ^{13}C-NMR$, IR, and FAB-MS. Compound I-IV were tilianine ($acacetin-7-O-{\beta}-D-glycopyranoside$), rutin($quercetin-3-O-{\alpha}-L-rhamnopyranosy(1{\rightarrow}6)-{\beta}-D-glu-copyranoside$), $kaempferol-3-O-{\alpha}-L-rhamnopyranosyl(1{\rightarrow}6)-{\beta}-D-galactopyranoside$, and apigetrin, ($apigenin-7-O-{\beta}-D-glycopyranoside$), respectively.