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Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand Activity of Extracts from 62 Herbal Medicines and Effect on Cytochrome P450 Activity

Overview of attention for article published in Yakugaku Zasshi = Journal of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, October 2015
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Title
Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand Activity of Extracts from 62 Herbal Medicines and Effect on Cytochrome P450 Activity
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Yakugaku Zasshi = Journal of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, October 2015
DOI 10.1248/yakushi.15-00153
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Akiko Harada, Kazumi Sugihara, Yoko Watanabe, Seiichi Yamaji, Shigeyuki Kitamura, Shigeru Ohta

Abstract

  Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) ligand activity of the extracts of 62 herbal medicines was examined using yeast reporter assay. Fifty-eight herbal extracts exhibited AhR ligand activity. The highest activity was observed with Ogon (Scutellariae Radix), followed by Oren (Coptidis Rhizoma), Kujin (Sophorae Radix) and Shoma (Cimicifiigae Rhizoma). When these extracts were treated with hesperinase, a hydrolase for sugar conjugates, the aglycones showed higher activity than the parent extracts. Among the constituents of Ogon extract, baicalein and wogonin showed AhR ligand activity, while the sugar conjugate of baicalein, baicalin, was inactive. Among the flavonoid components of these herbal medicines, flavone and chrysin exhibited high ligand activity for AhR. Ethoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (EROD) activity due to CYP1A1 in HepG2 cells was enhanced by the addition of baicalein. Baicalein also decreased the 3-methylcholanthrene-induced increase of EROD activity, but this effect was not statistically significant. When wogonin or baicalein was orally administered at the dose of 100 mg/kg to mice, EROD activity in liver was only slightly changed. Furthermore, when Ogon extract was co-administered with 3-methylcholanthrene, the EROD and methoxyresorufin O-dealkylase activities were not significantly changed. These results indicate that many herbal extracts have AhR ligand activity, and their inducing effect on CYP1A1/2 can be evaluated in HepG2 cells.

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Unknown 3 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 33%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 33%
Unknown 1 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 33%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 33%
Unknown 1 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2020.
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#7,893,480
of 25,490,562 outputs
Outputs from Yakugaku Zasshi = Journal of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
#360
of 1,961 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#88,879
of 287,117 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Yakugaku Zasshi = Journal of Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
#2
of 19 outputs
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