Tool from traditional medicines is useful for health-medication: Bezoar bovis and taurine

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 643, Issue , 2009, Pages 95-103

  Takahashi, Kyoko ^a   Azuma, Yuko ^b   Kobayashi, Shizu ^b   Azuma, Junichi ^b   Takahashi, Koichi ^b   Schaffer, Stephen W ^b   Hattori, Masao ^b   Namba, Tsuneo ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; BEZOAR BOVIS; BILE SALT; CALCIUM ION; CHOLIC ACID; CYSTEINE; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; INOTROPIC AGENT; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; TAURINE; TAUROCHOLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PROTECTION; INCUBATION TIME; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEZOAR; CATTLE; HUMAN;

BOS;

ANIMALS; BEZOARS; CATTLE; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; TAURINE;

EID: 63149189818     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75681-3_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Chen X, Mellon RD, Yang L, Dong H, Oppenheim JJ, Howard OMZ (2002) Regulatory effects of deoxycholic acid, a component of the anti-inflammatory traditional Chinese medicine Niuhung, on human leukocyte response to chemooattractants. Biochem Pharmacol 63:533-541
2. Drugs in Japan forum (2006) Drugs in Japan: OTC drugs 2007-08. Jiho Inc, Tokyo. Hashimoto A, Yamasaki K, Kokusenya Y, Miyamoto T, Sato T (1994) Investigation of "signal" constituents for the evaluation of animal crude drugs. I. Free amino acids and total amino acids. Chem Pharm Bull 42:1636-1641
3. Huxtable RJ (1992) Physiological actions of taurine. Physiol Rev 72:101-163
4. Ishibashi A, Kosoto H, Ohno S, Sakaguchi H, Yamada T, Matsuda K (2005) Genaral introduction to Kampo. In: The Japan society for oriental medicine (eds) Introduction to KAMPO: Japanese Traditional medicine, Elsevier Japan, Tokyo, pp 2-8
5. Jones BN, Gilligan JP (1983) O-phthaldehyde precolumn derivatization and reversed-phase highperformance liquid chromatography of polypeptide hydrolysates and physiological fluids. J Chromatogr 266:471-482
6. Matsumoto N, Nakashita T, Kashima K (1995) Effectiveness of bovine gallstone (Goou) and bear gall powder (Yutan) on chronic liver diseases: a preliminary report. Tokai J Exp Clin Med 20:9-16
7. Mori T (1971) Goo. In: Mori T (ed) Shen-Nong-Ben-Cao-jing, Seibundo, Tokyo, p 14 Namba T, Nunome S, Hattori M, Higashidate S, Maekubo T (1982) Fundamental stidies on the evaluation crude drug, VII. On animal gall (1). Yakugaku Zasshi 102:760-767
8. Satoh H, Sperelakis N (1998) Review of some actions of taurine on ion channels of cardiac muscle cells and others. Gen Pharmacol 130:451-463
9. Schaffer SW, Lombardini JB, Azuma J (2000) Interaction between the actions of taurine and angiotensin II. Amino Acids. 18:305-318
10. Takahashi K, Azuma J, Park S, Awata N, Kishimoto S, Namba T, Shaffer SW (1989) Pharmacological study of a traditional Chinese medicine: effect of Bezoar Bovis on the irregular beating pattern of cultured mouse myocardial cells. Res Commun Chem Phathol Pharmacol 63: 317-330
11. Xu Y, Saini HK, Zhang M, Elimban V, Dhalla NS (2006) MAPK activation and apoptotic alterations in hearts subjected to calcium paradox are attenuated by taurine. Cardiovasc Res 72: 163-174
12. Yoneda K (2000) Jutan. In: Office of Shosoin Treasure-House, Imperial Household Agency (ed) Shosoin Medicaments Chuokoron-shinsha, Tokyo, pp 136-138