• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.828-833
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• 2003

Dially disulfide (DADS), a component of garlic (Allium sativum), has been known to exert potent chemopreventive activity against various cancers. In this study, the synergistic effect of DADS and daunorubicin on the cytotoxicity of HL-60 cells, a human leukemia cell line, was investigated. DADS at 25 M greatly potentiated daunorubicin-induced cell death, decreasing cell viabilityto50%ofthe control. Daunorubicin-induced apoptosis was accompanied by the activation of caspase-3, the degradation of poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) and D4-GDI, and DNA fragmentation, which were blocked by pre-treatment with acetyl-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp- dialdehyde (Ac-DEVD-CHO). Treatment that combined 25 M DADS and 100 nM daunorubicin caused a similar degree of caspase-3 activation, PARP and D4-GDI degradation, and DNA fragmentation to that caused by treatment with 250 nM daunorubicin alone. These results indicate that combined therapy using daunorubicin with DADS, a component of food, and garlic can effectively decrease the therapeutic dose of daunorubicin, preventing the severe side effects of daunorubicin.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.205-209
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• 1986

Glutathione s-transferase in thought to play a key role in initiating the detoxication of potential alkylating agents, including pharmacologically active compounds. It is widely accepted that garlic contained allin which is converted to allicin by allinase. Allicin is easily degraded to diallyl disulfide and other components. This report attempted to observe the effect of diallyl disulfide on some biological activities. It was observed that the activity of serum transaminase was not changed by the treatment of diallyl disulfide. The liver cytosolic glutathione s-transferase was significantly increased. where as the microsomal glutathione s-transferase was not increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.472-480
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• 1994

Allicin was synthesized for the purpose of identification an dquantitation of a pharmaceutical dosage form in soft capsules. The identified transformed products fro allicin were dially disulfide , 3-vinyl-[4H]-1, 2-dithiin and 2-vinyl-[4H]-1, 3-dithiin in gas chromatrographic conditions and dially disulfide and ajoene in HPLC. Allicin is thermally unstable , it may be completely decomposed to vinyl dithiin isomers in GC conditions. For that reason, allicin was not found directly in the pharmaceutical dosage forms. In HPLC conditions, mobile phase was methanol /water containing 0.1% formic acid(65/35) and column was $\mu$-Bondapak C18. Detection wa-velength was 254nm. The retention time of allicin was 6.98min. The calibration ranger for allicin was 10 $\mu\textrm{g}$/ml to 200$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml and correlation coefficient(r) was 0.987.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.230-235
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• 2005

Volatile organic components from fresh and freeze-dried onions were extracted by SDE apparatus and analyzed by GC/MS. Components of 40 and 31 were identified in fresh and freeze-dried onions respectively. These components included esters, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols and S-containing compounds. Major compounds of S-containing compounds such as 1-propanethiol, dipropyl trisulfide, and methyl propyl trisulfide in fresh onions were clearly decreased in freeze-dried onions. Then, S-containing compounds such as methyl allyl sulfide, propyl ally sulfide, dially disulfide and 3,5-diethyl-l,2,4-trithiolane and alcohols such as pentanol, hexanol and propanol were disappeared by freeze-drying. Exceptionally, ethyl acetate, dimethyl disulfide and 2-methyl-2-pentenal were increased as different trend with major S-containing compounds. (Z)-Propenyl methyl disulfide and (E)-propenyl methyl disulfide were also changed by freeze-drying in the similar pattern as mentioned above compounds.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.442-447
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• 2007

The properties of garlic (Allium sativum L.) are attributed to organosulfur compounds. In this paper, an analytical technique with a rapid and simple sample preparation procedures for determination of diallyl disulfide (DADS) in garlic was reported. The DADS was simply extracted with various solvents (methanol, benzene or tetrahydrofuran) from garlic and prepared for HPLC analysis. From the results, the methanol was select as an optimal extraction solvent. The mobile phase was composed from methanol and water, and the gradient elution mode was applied. 0.61 mg of DADS per g garlic powder can be extracted with methanol. This work offers some advantages over the currently accepted techniques and would be useful for chemical and biological studies of garlic and its products.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1046-1051
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• 2011

Diallyl disulfide (DADS), the most prevalent oil-soluble organosulfur compound in garlic, is known to have diverse biological activities, including anticarcinogenic, antiatherosclerotic, antiinflammatory, and antioxidant actions. In this study, we investigated the effect of DADS on the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in human liver hepatoma cell line HepG2. Treatment of HepG2 cells by DADS evoked a dose-dependent growth inhibition without significant toxicity to the cells, and also induced the expression of transcription factor Nrf2. However, DADS did not have any enhancing effect on transcription and translation of HO-1 expression in HepG2 cells. In addition, DADS efficiently blocked protein synthesis of HO-1 in HepG2 cells stimulated by CoPP or hemin. But, DADS did not decrease the content of transcripts of HO-1 gene stimulated by CoPP, with accumulation of Nrf2 and small Maf in the nucleus. Based on these results, we conclude that DADS inhibits HO-1 expression by modulation of translational level of CoPP or hemin-induced HO-1 expression in HepG2 cells.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.17 no.8 s.88
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• pp.1115-1120
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• 2007

In the present study, we investigated whether several phytochemicals (resveratrol, genistein, epicatechin gallate, dially disulfide, caffeic acid phenetyl ester) and sulindac sulfide could induce expression of tumor suppressor p53 protein in human colorectal HCT116 cells. We found that p53 was dramatically induced by all phytochemical treatments except sulindac sulfide. Among treated phytochemicals, we selected resveratrol for further experiments because it is one of the highest p53 inducer. Using a Western blot analysis, we found that resveratrol induced p53 in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Additionally, using membrane-based microarray analysis, we found that twenty-five genes were up-regulated and two genes were down-regulated by resveratrol treatment. Among the up-regulated genes, we selected 4 genes and performed reverse-transcription-PCR to confirm microarray data. The results of RT-PCR were highly accorded with those of membrane microarray. In addition, we found that thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) expression was not dependent on p53 presence, whereas mammary serine protease inhibitor (MASPIN) expression was dependent on p53 expressed by resveratrol treatment. The results of this study may help to promote our understandings of the molecular mechanisms of chemoprevention that are mediated by resveratrol in human colorectal cancer.