• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 2016

Antioxidative components and activities of the extracts from Pleurotus ostreatus extracted at different ethanol concentration were analyzed and their correlation were investigated. Ergothioneine, total phenolic compounds, and flavonoid contents of the extracts from P. ostreatus extracted with hot water (0% ethanol) were the highest ($2.98{\pm}0.05$, $9.51{\pm}0.45$, and $2.83{\pm}0.03mg/g$, respectively) and the contents were decreased according to increase of ethanol concentration for extraction. DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging activities of the extracts from P. ostreatus extracted with hot water were the highest ($80.41{\pm}0.56$ and $91.47{\pm}0.11%$, respectively). FRAP value also showed the highest reducing power by $8.86{\pm}0.33\;FeSO_4\;eq$. mM in hot water extracts. Positive correlations were found between ergothioneine contents and antioxidative active components and antioxidant activity of the extracts from P. ostreatus. Results indicate that hot water extraction was most efficient for the extracts with high antioxidative activities from P. ostreatus.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1571-1577
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• 2007

The herb mixtures that are known to lower blood pressure were selected through oriental medical books and prescriptions and the physicochemical properties of their water extracts were analyzed to examine the possibility as functional food materials. The total yield of 28 water extracts was in the range of $5.33{\sim}36.71%$. Total phenolics and flavonoid content were $204.89{\sim}2543.29mg%\;and\;59.79{\sim}1430.55mg%$, respectively, and especially No. 2, 5, 9, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 26 showed high rates of above 800 mg%. Electron donating ability (EDA) was $7.81{\sim}98.18%$, and the samples that showed high values in EDA were similar to the samples with high values in total phenolics and flavonoid content. Phenolics and flavonoid compounds of the herbs are considered to perform a major role in antioxidation. Nitrite scavenging ability reached the highest at pH 1.2 ($11.70{\sim}96.47%$) and the lowest at pH 6.0 (below 12.77%), which indicates that nitrite scavenging ability decreases when pH increases.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.292-297
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• 2010

Anthocyanin, a phenolic compound, is a pigment that shows blue or red color in the fruit, petal and other tissues. It is an important factor in grape berry skin pigment and accumulates only in the skin. This skin-specific accumulation of anthocyanin has been reported to be regulated by the ufgt gene which encodes UDP-glucose: flavonoid 3-O-glucosyltransferase that participates in the biosynthesis of anthocyanin. The ufgt gene is expressed only in berry skin, while the other genes involved in the biosynthetic pathway are expressed in both skin and flesh tissues. In order to determine whether anthocyanin accumulation is primarily regulated by compartment of UFGT, a ufgt cDNA clone was isolated from grape berry, its open reading frame was ligated in pBI121 vector in either a sense or an antisense orientation under the control of the CaMV35S promoter and the recombinant constructs were incorporated into tobacco plants. Several transgenic lines were selected and characterized to determine the level of expression of the grapevine ufgt transcript and endogenous homologs of tobacco. Compared to the wild-type, the amount of anthocyanins in sense transgenic plants increased by 44%, while the amount of anthocyanins in antisense transgenic plants decreased by 88%. In addition, the color of flowers became intense in the sense transgenic plants. These results suggest that over-expression or repression of the ufgt gene affected the accumulation of anthocyanin in flowers of tobacco.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.173-178
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• 2012

The water extract of the fermented $Rhus$ $verniciflua$ stem bark (FRVSB) was prepared by hot water extracting at $100^{\circ}C$ for 8 h. The urushiol content of the FRVSB water extract was determined by HPLC. The urushiol was not contained in FRVSB water extract, whereas $Rhus$ $verniciflua$ stem bark (RVSB) water extract contained 3.4 mg%. At the lab scale size, suitable water extraction condition for a total solid, polyphenol and flavonoid from FRVSB was at over $100^{\circ}C$ for 6-8 h. The total solid contents was reduced in pilot scale processing system, with 5.7% of the extraction yield. The proximate composition (%) of FRVSB water extract obtained from industrial installation was moisture 4.34, crude fat 1.69, crude protein 10.21, and crude ash 15.80. Gallic acid (1,090.5 mg%) was the most abundant compound in phenolic acids, while fisetin (135.7 mg%) was the predominant flavonoid. The free sugar content was mannitol of 3.48%, glycerol of 0.19%, and glucose of 0.19%. Alanine (244 ppm), serine (231 ppm), and leucine (218 ppm) were predominant amino acids.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.415-423
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• 2018

The aim of this study was to evaluate the individual glucosinolate (GSL), total phenol, total flavonoid, and vitamin C content, and antioxidant activity under various light quality condition, mainly focusing on red (R) to far-red (FR) light ratios in three Brassica sprouts (radish, Chinese cabbage, and broccoli). Three R/FR ratio of 0.6, 1.3, and 2.0 were exposed to 5-day old sprouts for 48 h in a controlled environment, and the targeted phytochemical contents and antioxidant activities were compared with three separate control plot of dark, fluorescent, and red:blue 8:2 conditions. Total GSL content was highest in broccoli among the cultivars throughout the respective treatments, and increased with the increasing of R/FR ratio in the broccoli sprouts, while the content showed non-significant results in the Chinese cabbage sprouts. The progoitrin, a major GSL in Chinese Cabbage and broccoli, content decreased by upto 38% and 69%, respectively, with decreasing the R/FR ratio compared to the control plots (fluorescent, red:blue 8:2, and dark condition). The contents of phenol, flavonoid, and vitamin C were lowest in dark condition in all the three Brassica sprouts. The total phenol content and antioxidant activities increased with decreasing the R/FR ratio in all the Brassica sprouts, while total flavonoid and vitamin C content showed different patterns depending upon the Brassica sprouts. These results suggest that additional use of FR is expected to improve the functional quality of Brassica sprouts in different ways.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.196-201
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• 1999

Four antioxidative flavonoids were isolated from the aerial parts of Hypericum erectum. Their structures were identified as quercitrin (I), isoquercitrin (Ⅱ), hyperoside (Ⅲ) and orientin (IV) on the basis of spectroscopic means. Antioxidative activities for flavonoids $I{\sim}IV$ were determined by measuring lipid peroxide using 2-thiobarbituric acid (TBA) method and by evaluation the radical scavenging activity on 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical. Compound IV, orientin, was found to have strong antioxidative potency.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.34 no.1 s.132
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• pp.33-39
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• 2003

Eight compounds were isolated from the roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra by the tyrosinase inhibitory activity guided fractionation, and their structures were identified as liquiritigenin (1), isoliquiritigenin (2), isoliquiritigenin-2'-O-methyl ether (3), liquiritin (4), isoliquiritin (5), ononin (6), glycycoumarin (7), glycyrol (8) by analysis of spectral data. Compound 3 exhibited the most potent inhibitory effect on mushroom tyrosinase activity ($IC_{50}$, 47 M).

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.265-269
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• 1998

Several flavonoid dimers were isolated and elucidated from the bark of Korean pine tree (Pinus densiflora). One of them was postulated to be a compound, epicatechin $(4{\rightarrow}7)$ 5,8,3',4'-tetrahydroxy-(2R,3R)-flavan-3-ol, whose structural determination was carried out by diverse NMR techniques.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.327-339
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• 2016

Nanofiltration is useful to concentrate propolis extract. During the selection of membrane, both compound rejection and permeate flux are important indicators of process economy. Brazilian green propolis extract was studied to evaluate the separation performance of Startmen 122 and NF270 membranes. Compared to Starmen 122, NF270 membrane showed better rejection of bioactive compounds. The flux decline patterns were further studied using Hermia's model. Cake formation is the major fouling mechanism on the hydrophobic surface of Starmen 122. While the fouling mechanism for NF270 is pore blocking. The fouled membranes were further characterized using SEM and FT-IR to confirm on the predicted fouling mechanisms.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.69-77
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Scirpi rhizoma ethanol extract (SREE) on skin whitening using in vitro test. In the antioxidative activities, it was found that SREE contains 38.9 mg/g of polyphenol and 74.5 mg/g of flavonoid in total. In the electron donating ability, SREE showed a dose-dependent response, showing a high antioxidative capacity of 86.1% at 1000 ppm. It was found that the maximum permissible level of SREE to Melan-a cells was over 200 ppm, showing a quite low toxicity of SREE against Melan-a cells. Both in the inhibitory measurement for tyrosinase activity and melanogenesis using Melan-a cells, SREE presented a dose-dependent response with excellent efficacy.