Evaluation of the antiinflammatory hepatoprotective and antioxidant activities of Lycium chinense from Taiwan

Phytomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-220

  Lin, C C ^a,b   Chuang, S C ^a   Lin, J M ^c   Yang, J J ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^c Ziel Enterprise Co   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Antioxidant activity; Electron spin resonance (ESR); Free radical; Hepatoprotection; Lycium chinense

Indexed keywords

LYCIUM CHINENSE;

EID: 3843081914     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-7113(97)80070-0     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Castro, J. A., Ferrya, G. C., Castro, C. R., Sasame, H., Fenos, O. M., Gillette, J. R.: Prevention of carbon tetrachloride-induced necrosis by inhibitors of drug metabolism. Further studies on the metabolism of their action. Biochem. Pharmacol. 23: 295-302, 1974.
2. Compori, M.: Lipid peroxidation and cellular damage in toxic liver injury. Lab. Invest. 53: 599-620, 1985.
3. Halliwell, B. and Gutteridge, J. M. C.: Lipid peroxidation, oxygen radicals, cell damage, and antioxidant therapy. Lancet: 1396-1397, 1984.
4. Kimuya, K., Kubo, M., Tani, T., Arich, S., Okuda, H.: Studies on Scutellariae Rqdix. IV. Effects on lipid peroxidation in rat liver. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 29: 260-267, 1981.
5. Kohno, M.: Analysis of Superoxide by ESR method. Lab. Clin. Pract. 7(2): 65-71, 1989.
6. Kohno, M., Yamada, M., Mitsuta, K., Mizuta, Y., Yoshikawa, T.: Spin-trapping studies on the reaction of iron complexes with peroxides and the effect of water-soluble antioxidants. Bull. Chem. Soc.Jpn. 64: 1447-1453, 1991.
7. Lin, C. C., Chiu, H. F., Yen, M. H., Wu, C. C., Chen, M. F.: The pharmacological and pathological studies on Taiwan folk medicine (III): The effects of Bupleurum kaoi and cultivated Bupleurum falcattum van kaomaroivi. Am. J. Chin. Med. 18: 105-112, 1990a.
8. Lin, C. C., Yen, M. H. Chiu, H. F. Chang, C. H.: The pharmacological and pathological studies on Taiwan folk medicine (IV): The effects of Echinops grijsii and E. latifolius. Am. J. Chin. Med. 18: 113-120, 1990b.
9. Lin, J. M., Lin, C. C., Chen, M. F., Ujiie, T., Takata, A.: Studies on folk medicine "Thang-kau-tin" from Taiwan (II): Measurement of scavenging effect on active oxygen species using an ESR technique. Am. J. Chin. Med. 23 (1): 43-51, 1995a.
10. Lin, J. M., Lin, C. C., Chen, M. F., Ujiie, T., Takata, A.: Scavenging effects of Mallotus repandus on active oxygen species. J. Ethnopharmacol. 46: 175-181, 1995b.
11. Lin, J. M., Lin, C. C., Chen, M. F., Ujiie, T., Takata, A.: Radical scavenging and antihepatotoxic activity of Ganoderma formosanum, Ganoderma lucidum and Ganoderma neo-japonicum. J. Ethnopharmacol. 47: 33-41, 1995c.
12. Lowry, O. H., Rosebrough, N. J., Farr, A. L., Randall, R. J.: Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagent. J. Biol. Chem. 193: 265-275, 1951.
13. Maling, H. M., Eichelbaum, F. M., Saul, W., Sipes, I. G., Brown, G. A. B., Gillette, J. R.: Nature of the protection against carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity produced by pretreatment with dibenamine N-chloroethyldipenzylamine. Biochem. Pharmacol. 23: 1479-1491, 1974.
14. Masao, H., Yang, X. W., Miyashiro, H. and Namba, T: Inhibitory effects of monomeric and dimeric phenylpropanoids from mace on lipid peroxidation in vivo and in vitro. Phytother. Res. 7: 395-401, 1993.
15. Mihara, M., Uchiyama, M., Fukuzawa, K.: Thiobarbituric acid value on fresh homogenate of rats as a parameter of lipid peroxidation in aging, CCl4 intoxication, and vitamin E deficiency. Biochem. Med. 23: 302-311, 1980.
16. Mitsuta, K., Mizuta, Y., Kohno, M., Hiramatsu, M., Mori, A.: The application of ESR spin-trapping technique to the evaluation of SOD-like activity of biological substances. Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 63: 187-191, 1990.
17. 4-treated rats. Biochem. Pharmacol. 31: 609-614, 1982a.
18. Noguchi, T., Fong, K. L., Lai, E. K., Alexander, S. S., King, M. M., Olson, L., Poyer, J. L. and McCay P. B.: Specificity of a phenobarbital-induced cytochrome P-450 for metabolism of carbon tetrachloride to the trichloromethyl radical. Biochem. Pharmacol. 31: 615-624, 1982b.
19. Perry, L. M.: Medicinal Plants of East and Southeast Asia: Attributed Properties and Uses. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massadusetts and London, England p. 392, 1985.
20. Recknagel, R. O.: Carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity. Pharmacol. Rev. 19: 145-208, 1967.
21. Reitman, S. and Frankel, S.: A colorimetric method for the serum glutamic oxaloacetic and glutamic pyruvic transaminases. Am. J. Clin. Path. 28: 56-63, 1957.
22. Slater, T. E: Free-radical mechanisms in tissue injury. Biochem. J. 222: 1-15, 1984.
23. Winter, C. A., Risely, E. A., Nuss, C. W.: Carrageenan-induced edema in hind paw of the rats as an assay for anti-inflammatory drugs. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 111: 544-547, 1962.
24. Wong, S. H., Knight, J. A., Hopfer, S. M., Zaharia, O., Leach, C. N., Sunderman, F. W.: Lipoperoxide in plasma as measured by liquid-chromatographic separation of malondialdehyde-thiobarbituric acid adduct. Clin. Chem. 33: 214-220, 1987.
25. Yoshikawa, T., Tanaka H., Kondo, M.: Effect of vitamin E on adjuvant arthritis in rats. Biochem. Med. 29: 227-234, 1983a.
26. Yoshikawa, T., Tanaka H., Yoshida, N., Seto, O., Sugino, N. and Kondo, M.: Adjuvant arthritis and lipid peroxide: Protection by Superoxide dismutase. Lipid Peroxide Res. 7: 108-110, 1983b.
27. Yoshiyuki, K., Michinori, K., Tadato, T., Shigeru, A., Hiromichi, O.: Studies on Scutellariae Radix. IV. Effects on lipid peroxidation in rat liver. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 29: 2610-2617, 1981.
28. Yuda, Y., Tanaka, J., Hirano, E, Igarashi, K. and Satoh, T.: Participation of lipid peroxidation in rat pertussis vaccine pleurisy III Thiobarbituric acid (TBA) reactant and lysosomal enzyme. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 39 (2): 505-506, 1991.