• 생명과학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.556-564
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• 2008

인삼의 다양한 식품소재개발을 위하여 반응표면분석법을 이용한 홍삼주의 최적발효조건을 모니터링하였다. 중심합성 계획법에 의하여 독립변수로서 발효온도, 발효기간 및 초기 pH를 설정하여 종속변수 홍삼주의 이화학적 특성과 유효성분에 대한 영향을 조사하였다. 홍삼주의 알코올 함량과 총당 함량은 발효온도와 발효기간에 영향을 많이 받고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 조사포닌 함량은 발효기간에 많은 영향을 받고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 발효 후의 pH는 초기 pH에 많은 영향을 받고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 홍삼주의 유효성분인 Ginsenoside 함량을 조사한 결과 주로 발효온도보다는 발효기간 및 초기 pH에 의해 영향을 받고 있는 것으로 조사되었으며, 발효기간이 길고 초기 pH가 높을수록 함량이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 홍삼주의 이화학적 특성과 유효성분 함량에 대하여 superimposed counter map으로 최적 조건을 예측한 결과 발효온도 $21{\sim}27^{\circ}C$, 발효기간은 $15{\sim}20$일, 초기 pH의 경우 $4.6{\sim}5.2$로 각각 예측되었다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2020

Background: 20(S)-ginsenoside-Rg3 (C₄₂H₇₂O₁₃), a natural triterpenoid saponin, is extracted from red ginseng. The increasing use of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 has raised product safety concerns. Methods: In acute toxicity, 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 was singly and orally administrated to Kunming mice and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats at the maximum doses of 1600 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg, respectively. In the 26-week toxicity study, we used repeated oral administration of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 in SD rats over 26 weeks at doses of 0, 20, 60, or 180 mg/kg. Moreover, a 4-week recovery period was scheduled to observe the persistence, delayed occurrence, and reversibility of toxic effects. Results: The result of acute toxicity shows that oral administration of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 to mice and rats did not induce mortality or toxicity up to 1600 and 800 mg/kg, respectively. During a 26-week administration period and a 4-week withdrawal period (recovery period), there were no significant differences in clinical signs, body weight, food consumption, urinalysis parameters, biochemical and hematological values, or histopathological findings. Conclusion: The mean oral lethal dose (LD₅₀) of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3, in acute toxicity, is above 1600 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg in mice and rats, respectively. In a repeated-dose 26-week oral toxicity study, the no-observed-adverse-effect level for female and male SD rats was 180 mg/kg.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.104-110
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• 2009

고려 홍삼이 소음성 난청에서 청력 보호 및 회복에 관여하는 지를 밝히기 위하여 마우스에서 홍삼을 투여 후 소음에 노출시켜 청력 역치의 변화 및 와우의 활성 산소 유리기에 대한 노출 정도를 보았다. 영구적 청력 역치 이동의 경우에 홍삼은 청력 보호 및 회복에 관여하지 못했다. 하지만 일과성 청력 역치 이동의 경우에는 홍삼이 어느 정도의 농도 이상으로 투여 된다면 청력 회복에 효과적으로 작용하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 향후 홍삼의 난청 억제 효과에 대해 적정 농도 및 투여 방법 등에 대한 후속연구가 뒤따라야 하겠고 인간에서 발생하는 소음성 난청에의 적합성 판정을 위해 보다 장깆거인 소음 노출 기간과 장기적인 홍삼 복용에 대한 연구가 필요하겠다. 또한 홍삼내의 여러 활성물질에 관한 연구를 통하여 보다 효과적인 화합물을 찾기 위한 노력도 동반되어야 할 것이다.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.133-144
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• 1986

This study was undertaken to assess the effect of ginseng administration on T lymphocyte induced local xenogenic graft-versus-host(GVM) reactions which were induced with thymocyte, spleen cell and lymph node cell of ICR mice. Mice received daily 10mg of 70% alcohol ginseng extract oral1y for 100days and control mice remained untreated for the same period of time. The cells from donor mice were injected intradermally into the closely shaven abdominal skin of Sprague-Dawley rats for GVH tests. The thymocyte from control(ginseng-untreated) mice showed a negative local GVH reaction, whereas thymocyte from experimental(ginseng-treated) mice showed a positive reaction with the rate of 17.4%. When spleen cells were injected, the incidence of positive local GVH reaction was 66.7% among ginseng-treated mice, as opposed to incidence of 45.5% of positive local GVH reaction among control mice. The incidence of positive local GVH reaction of the lymph node cells when injected into a recipient was 71.4% among ginseng-treated mice as compared with that of 18.9% among control mice. The relationship between spleen cell inoculum and intensity of the local GVH reaction was assessed in ginseng-untreated mice. The intensity of GVH reaction clearly appears to be dose related. In ginseng-treated mice, a minimum of $1{\times}10^7$ spleen cell was required for production of positive local GVH reaction with almost linear relationship up to an inoculum of $5{\times}10^8$ cells. In control mice, however, a minimum of $1{\times}10^8$ spleen cells was required for positive GVH reaction. These results strongly suggest that the ginseng administration augments significantly the local xenogenic GVH reaction which was used to assess T lymphocyte function and immunocompetence of mice and in addition to this, these results appear to support previous suggestions that the local GVH reaction consitutes a qualitative test of the functional activity of T lymphocytes. These results may be the first to induce local GVH reaction, employing rats as recipient and mice as donor. This study was also desingned to investigate some of the effects of ginseng extract on lymphocyte-macrophage interactions. This was accomplished by in vitro quantification of 1) migratory inhibitory factor(MIF) synthetic capacity of splenic lymphocytes in mice previously primed with ginseng 2) MIF responsiveness of mouse peritoneal macrophages or chicken peripheral leucocytes under the presence of ginseng extract 3) migration ability of chicken peripheral leucocytes by direct stimulation of ginseng extract or ginseng saponin and 4) immunosuppressive effects of immunosuppressants such as cyclophosphamide, cyclosporin A or dexamethasone. Mice divided equally into the ginseng and the saline groups, which received intraperitoneally daily 0.2ml of ginseng absolute alcohol-extract(5mg/ml) and same amount of saline for 15 days, respectively. The cellular immune responsiveness of these mice was assayed 15 days after ginseng pretreatment. Splenic lymphocytes of mice treated with ginseng, when stimulated with sensitized specific-antigen such as sheep red blood cells or toxoplasmin, or with polyclonal activator concanavalin A, produced significantly more MIF than those of control saline group. MIF responsiveness of normal mouse macrophages was significantly augmented when assayed under the presence of ginseng extract (1mg/ml). The migratory ability of normal chicken leucocytes in the absence of MIF was significantly decreased by the stimulation of ginseng extract alone. MIF response was significantly decreased by immunosuppressants and this impaired response was not restored by ginseng pretreatment. This study was additionally performed to evaluate the effect of ginseng on the expulsion of adult Trichinella spiralis in mice. ICR mice were infected experimentally by esophageal incubation of 300 T. spiralis infective muscle larvae prepared by acid-pepsin digestion of infected mice. and received oral administration of 70% alcohol ginseng extract(10mg/mouse/day) for the indicated days plus 4 days before infection. At various times after infection, the number of adult T. spiralis worms in small intestines was determined. Interestingly, ginseng-treatment was accompanied by accelerated expulson of T. spiralis. These results led to the conclusion that Panax ginseng caused some enhancing effect on GVH reaction, macrophage migration inhibition reaction and expulsion of T. spiralis. In addition these results suggested that the mechanisms responsible for this enhancement of ginseng may be chiefly or partially due to nonspecific stimulation of cell-mediated immune response.

• 약학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.300-305
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• 1999

A sensitive and efficient assay method was applied to determine the level of glutamic acid (GA) and ${\gamma}-aminobutyric$ acid (GABA) in frontal cortex and hippocampus of rat administrated with ethanol and drugs. The compounds were derivatized with ο-phthalaldehyde (OPA) and 2-mercaptoethanof for precolunm analysis. The condition for the simultaneous determination of GA, GABA and $\beta-aminobutyric$ acid (BABA) by high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection was reverse phase $C_{18}$ column as stationary phase, 0.1 M phosphate buffer containing 0.1 mM $Na_4EDTA$ : methanol = 55:45 (v+v) pH 3.8 as mobile phase and 0.7V electrode voltage. The stability of reaction product of GA, GABA and BABA with OPA could be increased by adding the same volume of polyethylene glycol 400 to reaction mixture. The GABA level in frotal cortex of rat was significantly decreased by the administration of picrotoxin and diazepam, but it was significantly increased by the administration of red ginseng total saponin, N-methyl-D-glucamine and (-)-deprenyl.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2017

Background: Ginsenoside Rg1 is a class of steroid glycoside and triterpene saponin in Panax ginseng. Many studies suggest that Rg1 suppresses adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1. However, the detail molecular mechanism of Rg1 on adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 is still not fully understood. Methods: 3T3-L1 preadipocyte was used to evaluate the effect of Rg1 on adipocyte development in the differentiation in a stage-dependent manner in vitro. Oil Red O staining and Nile red staining were conducted to measure intracellular lipid accumulation and superoxide production, respectively. We analyzed the protein expression using Western blot in vitro. The zebrafish model was used to investigate whether Rg1 suppresses the early stage of fat accumulation in vivo. Results: Rg1 decreased lipid accumulation in early-stage differentiation of 3T3-L1 compared with intermediate and later stages of adipocyte differentiation. Rg1 dramatically increased CAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) homologous protein-10 (CHOP10) and subsequently reduced the $C/EBP{\beta}$ transcriptional activity that prohibited the initiation of adipogenic marker expression as well as triglyceride synthase. Rg1 decreased the expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and glycogen synthase kinase $3{\beta}$, which are also essential for stimulating the expression of $CEBP{\beta}$. Rg1 also reduced reactive oxygen species production because of the downregulated protein level of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate hydrogen (NADPH) oxidase 4 (NOX4). While Rg1 increased the endogenous antioxidant enzymes, it also dramatically decreased the accumulation of lipid and triglyceride in high fat diet-induced obese zebrafish. Conclusion: We demonstrated that Rg1 suppresses early-stage differentiation via the activation of CHOP10 and attenuates fat accumulation in vivo. These results indicate that Rg1 might have the potential to reduce body fat accumulation in the early stage of obesity.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2004

밭재배와 논재배처럼 토양환경이 상이한 조건에서 재배된 인삼의 지상부 생육의 경시적 변화 및 근부특성과 성분함량 차이를 비교하기 위해 금산지방의 직파재배 4년근 밭재배 및 논재배 농가포장을 선정하여 시험한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 논토양의 미사와 점토함량 그리고 토양수분과 공극율은 밭토양보다 뚜렸히 높았는데, 재배기간 동안의 토양수분함량 범위는 논재매 $17.5{\sim}19.5%$로 적당하였으나 밭재배는 $7.0{\sim}12.8%$로 낮은 수분함량을 보였으며, 논토양은 밭토양보다 인산과 칼슘함량이 적으나 염류농도와 유기물, 질산태질소, 칼륨, 마그네슘 함량이 높아 비교적 양호한 토양조건을 보인 관계로 초장, 생체근중 및 주당건물중 등 지상부와 지하부 생육은 논재배가 밭재배보다 양호한 생육을 보였다. 2. 논 밭재배간 순동화율 (NAR)과 작물생장율 (CGR) 직이 치밀하지 못했다는 Mog et al. (1981)의 보고와 비슷한 결과를 보였다. 표 5와 같이 생체근중의 분포비율은 직파 4년 재배에서 논 밭재배 모두 100 g 이상의 인삼은 생산되지 않았는데, 60 g 이상인 것의 비율이 논재배 5.3%로 밭재배 0.9%에 비해 많았으며 40 g 이상인 것의 비율도 논재배가 밭재배보다 높았다. 은 5월과 9월에 가장 뚜렸한 차이를 보였으며, 논재배시 근중은 9월 수확기에 가장 큰 증가를 보였으나 밭재배는 9 월에 조기낙엽 증가로 인하여 근중비대가 정지되어 뚜렸한 차이를 보였다. 3. 수삼수량은 논재배가 밭재배보다 약간 많으나 유의적인 차이는 없었으며, 적변 발생율도 논 밭재배간 유의적인 차이가 없었다. 4. 논 밭재배간 동체직경과 동체장, 뿌리의 수분함량 및 조사포닌과 50% 에탄올 추출 엑스함량은 유의적인 차이를 보였는데, 조사포닌과 엑스함량은 밭재배가 높았다. 5. 동체의 경도는 $5{\sim}8$월까지 논 밭재배 간에 서로 비슷하였으나 9월에 밭재배는 급격히 감소하여 뚜렸한 차이를 보였다.

• 대한본초학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2008

Objectives : This study was performed to efficiently make Black Panax Ginseng (BPG) and evaluate its antitumor activity. Methods : Panax ginseng was steamed at $95^{\circ}C$ for 3 h, dried and steamed again at $115^{\circ}C$ for 6 h. The main ginsenosides of BPG were $Rg_{3}$, $Rk_{1}$ and $Rg_{5}$. Results : Among the saponins in BPG, the amount of ginsenoside $Rg_{3}$ was determined by HPLC method. The 11.48 mg of ginsenoside $Rg_{3}$ was obtained from lg of dried BPG. The crude saponin fraction (CSF) of BPG was tested in vitro for its cytotoxic activities against various human cancer cell lines, such as ACHN, NCI-H23, HCT-15 and PC-3. The CSF of BPG exhibited stronger cytotoxic activity than that of red Panax ginsneng. CSF of BPG exhibited good cytotoxic activities against ACFIN, HCT-15, and PC-3 cell lines with $IC_{50}$ values of 60.3-90.8 ${\mu}g$/ml. However, CSF of BPG did not show any cytotoxic activity against NCI-H23 cell line. Conclusions : BPG produced by new manufacturing is more effective than BPG produced by existing processing in anticancer activity. And new BPG has a possibility of investigation because of high contents of Rg3, Rk1 and Rg5 that have various phisological activities.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.494-499
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• 2007

경북 풍기산 원료삼의 증자 및 건조 조건별 홍삼의 품질 및 기능성을 알아보기 위해 5년 근을 대상으로 증자 조건(2.5, 3.5, 4.5시간)과 건조 조건(열풍건조: $60-65^{\circ}C/24$시간, $40^{\circ}C/3-4$일, 동결 건조: $-80^{\circ}C/56$시간, 원적외선건조: $900W/62^{\circ}C/68$시간) 별로 이화학적 특성과 ginsenoside함량을 비교 분석하였다. 시료의 황색 도와 갈변도는 지근이 본근에 비해 높은 수치를 보였으며, 증자시간 3.5, 4.5, 2.5시간의 순으로 그리고, 원적외선건조, 열풍건조, 동결건조의 순으로 높은 수치를 보였다. 증자 및 건조시료의 가용성 고형분, 총 페놀, 총 플라보노이드, 산성다당체, 전자공여능 등의 특성은 3.5시간 증자와 원적외선 건조가 가장 양호한 결과를 보였다. 조사포닌 함량은 증자시간 및 건조방법에 영향을 받지 않았다. 함량이 높은 $ginsenoside-Rg_1$, -Re, -Rf $-Rb_2$, 등은 증자시간이 길어질수록 감소하였으나 $-Rg_3$ 및 $-Rh_2$의 함량은 유의적으로 증가하여 본근은 3.5시간, 지근은 4.5시간 증자시료에서 가장 높은 함량을 보였다(P<0.01). 증자 시료의 건조방법을 ginsenoside 관점에서 고려한다면 동결건조방법(2,824mg%)이 열풍건조(2,669 mg%)나 원적외선건조(2,667 mg%)에 비해 가장 타당한 것으로 판단되며, $ginsenoside-Rg_3$ 및 $Rh_2$의 함량은 동결건조와 열풍건조 간에 유의적인 차이가 없었다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.106-110
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• 2009

홍삼추출물(RGE)의 쓴 맛을 개선하기 위해서 ${\alpha}-,\;{\beta}-,\;{\gamma}$-CD을 이용해서 RGE의 포접화합물을 제조하여, 관능평가를 통해서 RGE-${\gamma}$-CD에 의한 쓴 맛 개선효과가 가장 큰 것을 확인하였다. RGE와 ${\gamma}$-CD의 비율에 따라서 쓴 맛은 선형적으로 감소하지만, RGE 고유의 향 조차도 감소하기 때문에, RGE 대비 10%의 ${\gamma}$-CD를 첨가하여 포접화합물을 형성할 때 쓴 맛은 RGE 대비 78% 정도 감소하였고, 홍삼의 향은 62% 정도를 유지함으로써 기호도면에서 우수한 결과를 얻었다. SD계 흰쥐에 RGE, RGE-${\gamma}$-CD10의 제제를 총 사포닌의 투여량이 제제간에 동일하도록 투여한 후, 혈장 중 RGE에 들어있는 주요한 성분으로 알려져 있는 ginsenoside Rg1, Rb1을 지표물질로 설정하여 전 농도를 측정하여 두 제제간의 AUC를 비교한 결과, Rg1의 경우, RGE 제제 투여 후의 평균값이 $13.11{\mu}g{\cdot}hr/mL$, RGE-${\gamma}$-CD10 투여 후의 평균값은 $12.04{\mu}g{\cdot}hr/mL$로 유의적인 차이는 없었다. 한편, Rb1의 경우, RGE 제제로서 투여하였을 때의 AUC 평균값이 $25.84{\mu}g{\cdot}hr/mL$, RGE-${\gamma}$-CD10 투여 후의 평균값은 $81.48{\mu}g{\cdot}hr/mL$로 3배 이상 높아짐을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에 의해 ${\gamma}$-CD로 RGE를 포접했을 경우 쓴 맛이 감소하고, ginsenoside Rb1의 생체이용율이 증가하여 RGE를 그대로 섭취할 경우보다 포접화합물로 섭취 시에 더 유용함을 확인하였다.