• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.184-189
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• 2011

Polysaccharide (PS) was fractionated from hot-water extract of Artemisia iwayomogi Kitamura stems. PS showed considerably higher hydroxyl radical scavenging activity than caffeic acid and glutathione. PS showed lower superoxide anion radical scavenging activity than hydroquinone and ascorbic acid. The scavenging activity of PS on the reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by human neutrophils with zymosan was determined by the lucigenin-enhanced chemiluminescence assay. The scavenging effect of the PS on ROS as determined by the chemiluminescence assay was about 2-fold stronger than that of ascorbic acid at the same concentration. PS significantly decreased protein carbonyl and malonaldehyde contents in UVB irradiated skin homogenates, which was comparable to glutathione at the same concentration. This result suggested that PS derived from A. iwayomogi Kitamura stems may be a potent candidate as functional compound for the protection on UVB induced skin damage in cosmetics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.2422-2423
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• 2010

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.634-643
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• 2021

Han In-jin (Artemisia iwayomogi Kitamura) and Cham Dang-gwi (Angelica gigas Nakai) exhibit antibacterial, antiparasitic, antifungal, and antiviral properties in vitro. In this study, mixture of the extracts of these two medicinal plants was absorbed on pellets. Thereafter, these pellets were fed to olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus for 12 weeks at laboratory (1^st experiment) and 24 weeks at field test (2^nd experiment), and the immune activity and disease resistance properties of the extracts were examined. It was observed that lysozyme activities of plasma, spleen, and kidney improved after 12 weeks. Furthermore, when the olive flounders were artificially infected with bacterial pathogens, their cumulative mortality decreased in the group that was fed the extracts for 12 weeks compared to that in control group, and the relative percent survival also improved. This study concluded that mixture of Han In-jin and Cham Dang-gwi extracts provides disease resistance in vivo.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2010

This study compared the antimicrobial activity and chemical composition of two plants used as "Injin" (Korean herbal medicine), namely, Injinho (Artemisia capillaris Thunberg) and Haninjin (Artemisia iwayomogi Kitamura). The ethyl acetate and ether fractions of crude methanol extracts from A. capillaris and A. iwayomogi were tested against three grampositive bacteria (Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus), two gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens), and a yeast (Saccharomyceus cerevisiae). The antimicrobial activity of the ethyl acetate and ether fraction of both plants was strong, but that of A. iwayomogi extracts was higher than that of A. capillaris extract for the microbes tested. The minimum inhibitory concentration of the ether and ethyl acetate fraction of A. iwayomogi was highest for P. fluorescens and lowest for S. aureus and E. coli. We analyzed the chemical composition of the ethyl acetate fraction of A. capillaris and A. iwayomogi using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The main components of A. capillaris and A. iwayomogi were escoparone (86.82%) and scopoletin (20.47%), respectively.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.849-854
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• 2009

Water extracts of injinssuk (Artemisia iwayomogi Kitamura) (WE) were obtained from the dried and ground leaves and stems of injinssuk. The WE was further fractionated into crude polysaccharide (C-PS) and nonpolysaccharide fractions (N-PS). The protective activities against the tert-butyl hydro peroxide induced mutangenecity on Escherichia coli PQ37 and reactive oxygen species scavenging activity of the WE, C-PS, and N-PS were studied. The WE obtained from leaves showed a significantly higher inhibitory effect on the mutagenicity than WE from stem. The WE obtained from the leaves having higher crude polysaccharide content but lower content of total carbohydrates had significantly higher antimutagenicity than that from the leaves with lower crude polysaccharide but higher total carbohydrate contents. Further study showed that C-PS fraction showed markedly stronger antimutagenic effect than N-PS. C-PS was also more effective than N-PS for hydroxyl radical scavenging activity, but was similar to N-PS in superoxide radical scavenging activity.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.338-343
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• 1998

Artemisia iwayomogi(A. iwayomogi) is a major edible vegetable in Korea. A iwayomogi containing a strong bitter taste, particularly, is known to manifest an effect on cough, abdominal pain, indigestion and bleeding. In this experiment, ethanol extract of A. iwayomogi(50mg/kg body weight) was fed to growing male Sprague-Dawley rats for four weeks in order to examine the lipid lowering effect of A. iwayomogi in the live and serum. High fat diet included 10% lard, 1% cholesterol and 0.25% sodium cholate. The administration of A. iwayomogi extract decreased serum cholesterol compared with the control. At the same time, serum triglyceride(TG) was decreased to 25%. Although atherogenic index and HTR tended to decrease, phospholipid level in the serum was shown to increase by A. iwayomogi administration. At the same token, total liver lipids were decreased to 40%. The group fed both high fat and ethanol extract showed 28% decrease of liver lipids compared with the group fed only high fat diet. On the other hand, HDL cholesteol level of high fat and extract fed group was increased to 30% compared with the non-extract-fed control. Liver TG also was decreased to about 21% in the extract fed groups. Liver phospholipids, particularly, exceeded more than double of the level of high fat control. The above results indicate than A. iwayomogi exert a strong hypocholesterolemic and hypolipidemic effect which may lead to the protection from hypertention, obesity, stroke and many other circulatory diseases.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.844-851
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• 2012

섬애약쑥, 인진쑥, 약쑥, 강화사자발쑥 및 개똥쑥 열수 추출물을 제조한 다음 항산화 및 항암활성을 비교 분석하였다. 5종의 쑥 추출물 중 총 페놀 함량은 인진쑥에서 유의적으로 가장 높았으며, 다음으로 섬애약쑥, 개똥쑥, 약쑥 및 강화사자발쑥 순이었다. 플라보노이드 함량도 인진쑥이 가장 높았고, 섬애약쑥은 인진쑥과 유의차가 없었다. 추출물의 농도를 달리하여 항산화능을 측정한 결과, DPPH 라디칼 소거능은 50 ${\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 섬애약쑥의 활성이 가장 높았고, NO 라디칼 소거능은 200 ${\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 약쑥, 강화사자발쑥 및 개똥쑥이 약 50% 이상의 활성을 나타내었으며, 이들 시료간에 유의차는 없었다. FRAP법에 의한 항산화능은 섬애약쑥 및 인진쑥에서 높게 나타났으며, ${\beta}$-carotene 존재 하에서의 항산화능 또한 섬애약쑥 및 인진쑥이 100 ${\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 50% 이상의 높은 활성을 나타내었다. 400 ${\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 인체 자궁경부 상피암 세포인 HeLa의 증식억제 활성은 인진쑥이 80% 이상으로 활성이 높았고, 유방암 세포인 MCF-7의 대해서는 강화사자발쑥과 섬애약쑥이 80% 이상의 증식억제 활성을 보였다. 이상의 결과, 쑥 추출물은 높은 항산화 활성과 암세포 증식억제 활성을 나타내었으며, 특히 항산화 활성은 ascorbic acid 이상의 높은 활성을 나타내어 천연 기능성 식품 소재로써 활용 가치가 높을 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제63권4호
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• pp.335-338
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• 2020

Artemisia iwayomogi (Compositae), a perennial mugwort, is native to Korea and widely distributed in Japan, Russia, and China. A. iwayomogi and A. capillaris are similar in morphology and pharmacological activity and have been used for the same medicinal purposes in Korea. While various ingredients such as coumarins and flavonoids and their activity studies have been reported for A. capillaris, few studies have been conducted on the pharmacologically active components of A. iwayomogi. In Korea, A. capillaris is not economical because only young leaves are used as a medicinal material. Because of this, A. iwayomogi is frequently used in Korea, indicating the need to study its pharmacologically active components. Therefore, a phytochemical study was initiated to isolate active compounds from the aerial parts of A. iwayomogi. Finally, four coumarins, umbelliferone (1), esculetin (2), grevillone (3), and scoparone (4) were isolated for the first time from the aerial parts of A. iwayomogi in this study.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.3493-3496
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• 2011

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.157-162
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• 1998

The antimutagenic activity of three kinds of extract such as fresh juice, ethanol extract and water extract of Artemisia iwayomogi against 3 - amino - 1, 4 - dimethyl - 5H - pyrido [4,3-b] indol (Trp-P-1) and N - methyl - N' - nitro - N -nitrosoguanidine(MNNG) was demonstrated with the Salmonella typhimurium assay. The number of revertants per plate decreased significantly when these extracts(0.5ug/plate) added to the assay system system using S. typhimurium TA 100. These extracts also showed prominant cytotoxic activity against four different kinds of human cancer cell as human lung cancer cell (A549), breast cancer cell(MCF7), fibrosacoma cell(HT1080) and gastric cancer cell(KATOIII), respectively.