Abstract:
A composition contains Phragmitis Rhizoma extract as an active ingredient. As a result of treating mouse bone marrow cells with an extract of Phragmitis Rhizoma, it was confirmed to have an effect that a decrease in colony of hematopoietic cells, which is induced by an anticancer agent, is significantly recovered and bone marrow suppression caused by an anticancer agent is significantly recovered in an animal model which has been induced to have bone marrow suppression according to intraperitoneal injection of an anticancer agent. Thus, the Phragmitis Rhizoma extract can be advantageously used for a composition for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of a disorder caused by side effect of an anticancer agent, and there is a possibility of having the increased effect of an anticancer agent when it is used as an anticancer adjuvant in combination with an anticancer agent.
Abstract:
Provided is a composition for preventing or treating obesity including a mixed extract of Cinnamomi twigs, and more particularly, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating obesity including a mixed extract of Cinnamomi twigs and Moutan root bark, a health functional food composition of feed composition for preventing or alleviating obesity including the composition, and a method of preventing or treating obesity including administering the pharmaceutical composition to an individual having obesity or a risk of developing obesity. The mixed extract of Cinnamomi twigs and Moutan root bark may inhibit fat absorption in the intestinal tract and increases in body weight causing obesity by single-dose administration, reduce lipid content in the blood, decrease weight and size of adipocytes, effectively inhibit accumulation of fat in liver tissue, and inhibit diarrhea, a serious side effect of Xenical™, by long-term administration.
Abstract:
A method for treating osteoarthritis according to an embodiment of the present invention includes administering to a subject in need thereof a composition comprising an extract of Alpinia oxyphylla. The extract of Alpinia oxyphylla can reduce the expression of IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α and COX-2 as an inflammatory factor and also the expression of MMP-9 as a cartilage degeneration-inducing factor, and can heal the cartilage damage, and thus it can be advantageously used as a functional health food composition for prevention or improvement of osteoarthritis or a therapeutic agent for osteoarthritis.
Abstract:
A composition comprising a Lithospermi Radix extract as an effective component prevents, alleviates, or treats peripheral neuropathy, in particular, peripheral neuropathy induced by an anti-cancer agent (i.e., chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy). A method for preventing or treating peripheral neuropathy includes administering to a subject in need thereof the composition. The Lithospermi Radix extract can relieve the suppressed growth of neurites caused by an anti-cancer agent while neither inducing any cytotoxicity in normal cells nor changing the unique cytotoxic potential of an anti-cancer agent in human cancer cells. In addition, the Lithospermi Radix extract can efficiently lower the enhanced sensitivity to painful stimuli in peripheral neuropathic animals induced by an anti-cancer agent. Thus, the Lithospermi Radix extract can be advantageously used as an effective component of a composition for prevention, alleviation, or treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating corneal diseases or conjunctival diseases, containing a maple leaf extract as an active ingredient. The maple leaf extract exhibits an effect of inhibiting hyperemia in the eyeball in which hyperemia has been induced and an effect of inhibiting angiogenesis in the eyeball in which corneal damage has been induced, thus being effectively used in a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating corneal diseases or conjunctival diseases.
Abstract:
A health functional food composition and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or ameliorating a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease include an extract of Dolichos lablab Linne as an active ingredient. The extract of Dolichos lablab Linne, being an active ingredient, effectively reduces accumulation of triglyceride in hepatocarcinoma cell line (HepG2). Therefore, the compositions are used for functional foods and medicines for the prevention or amelioration of non-alcoholic fatty liver.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating angioedema, containing as an active ingredient a peony root extract or an extract of a mixture of peony root and licorice. In particular, the extract of a mixture of peony root and licorice according to the present invention inhibits the excessive generation of advanced glycation end products, which may cause macular degeneration, inhibits blood-retinal barrier breakdown causing retinal edema in various animal models, protects or treats a subretinal region causing dry macular degeneration, inhibits angiogenesis causing wet macular degeneration, and thus can be usefully used as an active ingredient for the composition for preventing and treating angioedema including macular degeneration, macular edema, retinal edema, or varicose veins.
Abstract:
An arm-fastening device may comprise: a guide part for elastically fastening a first recessed point in the lower part of the radius of an arm of a user and a second recessed point in the lower part of the ulna of the arm of the user; a measurement part for, when the arm is fastened, measuring the length of the arm, the length being from a reference surface to the point where the guide part fastens the first recessed point and the second recessed point; and a determination part for determining whether the arm is fastened according to the result of a comparison of the measured length of the arm with a reference length used for determining whether the arm is fastened.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a skin-moisturizing or wrinkle-improving external composition or cosmetic composition which contains, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by Formula 1, which can be extracted from Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The composition prevents skin moisture loss and thus suppresses skin tissue damage induced by UV rays and so has a skin-wrinkle preventing or alleviating effect.
Abstract:
A method of determining a facial expression type may include extracting feature points representing facial characteristics from a facial image of a user; grouping the extracted feature points into a plurality of regions; and determining a facial expression type for each of a plurality of groups using feature points and a facial expression type function corresponding to each of the groups.