• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 1990

Toxohorome-L is a lipolytic factor found in ascites fluid of sarcoma 180-bearing mice and of patients with hepatoma. A substance that inhibited the lipolytic action of Toxohormone-L was isoialed from red ginseng powder. This substance had a pectin-like o 1, 4-pollrgalacturonan backbone with some acetoxyl groups, and so was an acidic polysaccharide. It inhibited Toxohormone-L-induced lipolysis in a dose dependent manner at concentrations higher than 10 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.106-111
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• 1991

This study was devised to obserL'e the inhibitory effects of 7 kinds of ginsenosides on a lipolytic action of Toxohormone-L. The ginsenosides used in this experiment were -Rbl, -Rbl, - Rc, - Re, - Rgl, and - Rg2 prepared from Korean red ginseng. Toxohormene-L was partially purified by centrifigation from the ascites fluids of Sarcoma-180 bearing mice. In vitro test showed that the inhibitory effect of - Rb2 on the lipolysis by Toxohormone-L was highest percent among other treatments at concentration of 100 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml and 500 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml of reaction mixture. And total inhibitory activity (units) of - Rb2 was also highest among other treatments at the same concentration. However, in vivo test, body weight gain of Sarcoma-180 bearing mice decreased significantly by administration of - Rg2 compared to those of the control or other ginsenosides treated groups.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.110-115
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• 1995

This study was devised to observe the inhibitory effects of ethanol treatment precipitate (crude acidic polysaccharide) from Korean red ginseng on a lipolytic action of Toxohormone-L which has been known as lipolytic and anorexigenic factors. Toxohormone-L was obtained by partial purification of the ascites fluid from mice which had been inoculated with sarcoma-180. The yields of crude acidic polysaccharide from Korean red ginseng was 63.5%. In vitro, at the concentration of 500rg /ml, the inhibition rate of lipolysis by the crude acidic polysaccharide of Korean red ginseng was 38.8% and the total inhibitory activity per gram of ginseng material was 4,928 nit. In vivo, the red ginseng polysaccharide(40mg/ml in saline soon.) 16ul/g of body weight was injected to the sarcoma-180 bearing mice once In 3 days until death. The effects against the extension of life span was little but body weight gain of sarcoma-180 bearing mice decreased significantly by administration of Korean red ginseng polysaccharide compared to those of the control group.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.10-13
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• 1990

Effect of an acidic polysaccharide fraction In Korean white and red ginseng on lipolytic action of Toxohormone-L was studied. Crude acidic polysaccharide fraction was extracted from main and lateral root of Korean white and red ginseng separately and purified several times. Inhibitory effect of crude polysaccharide fraction was determined by unit (1 unit is loft inhibition rate per Is sample). Yields of purified crude polysaccharide fraction of main and lateral root of red ginseng were 2.9 and 2.2 times higher than those of white ginseng, respectively. Inhibitory effects of main root of white and red ginseng, 11.hen final reaction concentrations of sample were 50, 100, 200, 500 $\mu$g/ml, were 37.2가 and 23.7% higher than those of lateral root of white and red ginseng. Inhibitory effect of main root of red ginseng was 2.3 times higher than that of white ginseng.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.145-252
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• 1987

Isolated rat adipocytes are well known to possess opposite pathways of lipid metabolism: lipolysis and ipogenesis. Both of the metabolism respond to various biologically active substances such as epinephrine, ACTH and insulin. Epinephrine and ACTH stimulate lipolysis and insulin accelerates lipogenesis. Recently, Korean red ginseng powder was found to contain adenosine and an acidic poptide which inhibited epinephrine-induced lipolysis and sl imulated insulin-mediated lipogenesis from added glucose. The acidic peptide is consisted mainly of glutamic acid and glucose. Ginsenosides Rb1 and Re inhibited ACTH-induced lipolysis in isolated rat adipocytes, while they did not affect insulinstimulated lipogenesis, Thus, all these substances extracted from Korean red ginseng exhibited selective modulations toward the opposite metabolic pathways in rat adipocyte; They inhibited the lipolysis but not the lipogenesis. We call these substances"selective modulators". Recently, we isolated a toxic substance named "toxohormone-L " from ascites fluid of patients with various malignant tumors. The toxohormone-L stimulated lipolysis in rat adipocytes and induced anorexia in rats. Both the lipolytic and the anorexigenic actions of toxohormone-L were found to be inhibited by ginsenoside Rb2 in Korean red ginseng. Based on these results, physiological signifi¬cances of these substances in Korean red ginseng were discussed. Pan ax ginseng is a medicinal plant long used in treatment of various pathological states including general complaints such as head ache, shoulder ache, chilly constitution and anorexia in cancer patients, There have been many pharmacological studies on Panax ginseng roots. Petkovllreported that oral administration of an aqueous alcoholic extract of ginseng roots decreased the blood sugar levtl of rabbits. Saito2lreported that Panax ginseng suppressed hyperglycemia induced by epinephrine and high carbohydrate diets. These findings suggest that Panax ginseng roots contain insulin-like substances. Previously, we demonstrated that gin¬seng roots contain an insulin-like peptide which inhibits epinephrine-induced lipolysis and stimulated insulin-mediated lipogenesis. In 1984, we suggested that such an insulin-like substance should be called a selective modulator4). Present investigation describes the details of the selective modulators in ginseng roots. During progressive weight loss in patients with various neoplastic disease, depletion of fat stores have been observed. The depletion of body fat during growth of neoplasms is associated with increase in plasma free fatty acids. Recently, we found that the ascites fluid from patients with hepatoma or ovarian tumor and the pleural fluid from patients with malignant lymphoma elicited fatty acid release in slices of rat adipose tissue in vitro. The lipolytic factor, named"toxohormone-L". was purifed from the ascites fluid of patients with hepatoma. The isolated preparation gave a single band on both disc gel electrophoresis and sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS)-acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of ${\beta}$-mercaptoethanol. Its molecular weight was determined to be 70,000-75,000 and 65,000 by SDS-acrylamide gel electrophoresis and analytical ultracentrifugation, respectively. Injection of toxohormone-L into the lateral ventricle of rats significantly suppressed food and water intakes. There was at least 5 hr delay between its injection and appearance of its suppressive effect. In the present study, we also tried to find a inhibitory substance toward toxohormone-L from root powder of ginseng.

• 고려인삼학회:학술대회논문집
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• 고려인삼학회 1988년도 학술대회지
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• pp.28-32
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• 1988

에피네프린은 지방분해를 촉진하고 인슈린은 지방생성을 촉진한다는 것은 잘 알려져 있다. 최근에 한국홍삼분말 중에는 에피네프린으로 유도된 지방분해를 억제하며 인슐린이 매개하는 당으로부터의 지방합성을 촉진하는 아데노신과 산성펩티드 성분이 존재함이 밝혀졌다. 산성펩티드의 화학구조는 Glu-Glu-Glu-Glu-Glu-Glu-Glucose인 것으로 밝혀졌다. 한국홍삼으로 부터 추출된 이러한 물질들은 흰쥐 지방세포에서 반대의 대사경로를 통하여 지방분해를 억제하는 반면 지방합성을 촉진하기도 하는 선택적 조절작용을 나타낸다. 최근에 우리는 여러가지 악성종양을 가진 환자의 복수액으로부터 toxohormone-L로 명명된 독성물질을 분리하였다. Toxohormone-L은 흰쥐 지방세포에서 지방분해를 촉진하고 흰쥐에서 식욕감퇴를 유발했다. Toxohormone-L의 이러한 작용은 한국홍삼에서 분리된 진세노사이드 $Rb_2$에 의해서 억제됨이 발견되었다. 한국홍삼에서 발견된 이러한 물질의 생리학적 유의성을 언급하고자 한다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.248-255
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• 1996

This study was devised to observe in vitro, the inhibitory effects of acidic polysaccharide fractions from Korean red ginseng (KRG) and white ginseng (KWG) on the lipolytic action of loxohormone-L and on angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE, peptidyldipeptidase hydrolase, EC 3.4.15.1) . The crude acidic polysaccharides (CAP) extracted from main and lateral roots of KRG and KWG were separately purified through several procedures. The total inhibitory activities on the lipolytic action of toxohormone-L of CAP from main roots of KRG and KWG was higher than those of CAP from lateral roots of KRG and KWG, respectively, and that of CAP from main root of KRG was 3.1 times higher than that of CAP from main root of KWG. The specific activity of CAP from main root of KRG was measured as 5.40 units/mg, when one unit was defined as the amount giving 50% inhibition on toxohormone-L induced lipolysls. A subfraction named PG4 3 obtained by replanted chromatography on DEAE-TOYOPEARL 650M gave the specific activity of 24.4 units/mg. On the other hand, it was found that the total inhibitory activity on ACE of CAP from lateral root of KRG was the highest among the 4 kinds of CAP, but the specific activity of CAP from lateral root of KWG was the highest.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 1992

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of water extracts from 4-, 5- and 6-year old red white ginseng roots on the inhibition of lipolysis in fat cells induced by toxohormone-L which has been known as lipolytic and anorexigenic factors. Toxohormone-L was obtained by partial purification of the ascites fluid from mice which had been inoculated with sarcoma-180. Each water extract of ginseng was effective in vitro against the inhibition of lipolysis induced by the toxohormone-L at the concentrations over 10~100 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml. At the concentration of 1,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml, the inhibition ratio of lipolysis by the water extracts of 4-, 5- and 6-year old white ginseng roots were 56.3, 59.7 and 59.4%, and those of red ginseng roots were 78.6, 79.1 and 82.5%, respectively, indicating that the 6-year old red ginseng was the most effective in the inhibition of the lipolysis. The total inhibitory activity per gram of ginseng sample was higher in the 4-year and 5-year old white ginseng roots at the concentrations of 100 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml and 1,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml, respectively, while for the red ginseng it was higher in the 6-year old ginseng than other ages regardless of the reaction concentration. Only once injection of the ginseng extracts(300 mg/ml in saline solution) with 10 ${mu}ell$/g of weight to the mice bearing sarcoma-180 was not effective against the extension of their life spans. On the contrary, the life spans of the mice were rather shortened by the injection of 5-year old white ginseng and 6-year old red ginseng, as compared to that of control.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.383-391
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• 1994

한국 홍삼과 백삼의 조산성 다당체 성분과 수용성 추출물, 그리고 ginsenoside 성분이 암독소 호르몬-L에 의해 유도된 지방 분해를 저해하는 효과를 검토하고자 본 연구를 수행하였다. 지방분해 및 식욕억제 인자로 알려진 암독소 호르몬-L은 saroma-180을 접종한 mouse의 복수액으로부터 부분정제하여 사용하였다. 한국 홍삼과 백삼으로부터 정ㅇ제하여 얻은 조산성 다당체 각 분획의 성분은 10$\mu$g/ml 농도 이상에서 암독소 호르몬-L이 유도하는 지방 분해에 억제효과가 있었고, 이들 중 PG1과 PG4에서 지방 분해 저해 활성이 가장 높았으며, 이를 더 정제한 결과 PG4-3분획에서 활성이 가장 높았다. 고려인삼 중 백삼과 홍삼의 각 4, 5, 6 년근별로 얻은 수용성 추출물의 암독소 호르몬-L의 지방분해 억제에 미치는 영향을 검토한 결과 억제율은 1,000$\mu$g/ml 농도에서 백삼 4, 5 및 6년근이 각각 56.3, 59.7 및 59.4% 였고, 홍삼은 각각 78.6, 79.1 및 82.5%로 백삼보다 홍삼의 억제율이 높았다. 인삼 시료 g당 총저해활성은 백삼의 경우 100$\mu$g/ml 농도에서는 4년근이, 1,000$\mu$g/ml 농도에서는 5년근에서 가장 높았으나, 홍삼의 경우 다같이 6년근에서 가장 높았다. 또한 ginsonoside 성분의 경우 지방 분해 억제율과 총저해활성이 모두 RB2에서 가장 높았다.

• 고려인삼학회:학술대회논문집
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• 고려인삼학회 1990년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Korean Ginseng, 1990, Seoul, Korea
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• pp.15-19
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• 1990

We have been isolating various physiologically active substances from non-saponin fraction of Korean Red Ginseng These are adenosine, gyro-glutamic acid, dencichine and acidic polysaccharide. Adenosine and gyro-glutamic acid are loom to inhibit epinephrine-induced lipolysis in fat cells and stimulate the insulin-mediated lipogenesis. In addition to these actions, adenosine was found to inhibit both norepinephrine- and histamine-induced aorta constriction, and pyre·glutamic acid inhibits angiotensin-converting enzyme. Dencichine stimulated histamine-induced aorta constriction. Finally, acidic polysaccharide was found to inhibit both lipolytic and anorexigenic actions of Toxohormone-L. Based on these experimental results, I presented a brief review on these compounds isolated from non- saponin fraction of Korea Red Ginseng. Keywords Panax ginseng, Korean red ginseng, adenosine, pyroglutamic acid, dencichine, acidic polysac- charide, lipolysis, lipogenesis, angiotensin-converting enzyme, toxohormone-L.