Arabis glabra is a localized common rhizomatous flowering plant, This plant is often used in Korean traditional systems of medicine as a remedy for blood cleaning, detoxification, abscess, gastrospasm, arthritis, contraction and diarrhea. Generally drugs that are used for arthritis have antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory properties. However, validity of the anti-inflammatory activity has not been scientifically investigated so far. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the anti-inflammatory potential of A. glabra using the ethanolic extract and its sub-fractions. To evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects, we examined the inflammatory mediators such as nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on RAW 264.7macrophages. Our results indicated that hexane and chloroform fraction significantly inhibited the LPSinduced NO and PGE2 production in the cells. The hexane fraction inhibitory activity for NO tests with IC50 values showed in 21.0 ㎍/㎖. The chloroform fraction inhibitory activity for PGE2 tests with IC50 values showed in 18.0 ㎍/㎖. These efficacy are expected to be able to present the potential for the development of health functional food for the prevention inflammatory diseases because it has sufficient preventive medical possibilities. Further, it is determined that it is necessary to further study the mechanism of cytokine and protein expression associated with inflammation.

Soyasaponin group B함량의 재배지대간 비교에서는 고랭지와 평난지에서 상이한 차이를 보였으며 품종 간에는 대부분 자엽색이 녹색이고 종피색이 검정색인 콩의 soyasaponin group B함량이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼 때 soyasaponin성분의 함량은 재배종의 종류 즉 유전적인 요인뿐만 아니라 고랭지와 평난지처럼 환경적 요인이라고 것을 확인할 수 있었으며 이는 식물이 환경적인 스트레스에 대한 생명유지 및 공격방어물질(Secondary matabolites, 이차대사산물)이 식물내 생합성과정 중에서 변이를 보이는 것으로 사료되어 진다.

Machilus thunbergii was an important medicinal resource and distributed widely in China. In this study, the bioactivities of dichloromethane fraction (DF) and water fraction (AF) from Machilus thunbergii methanol extract were investigated. Total phenolic contents of DF and AF were 57.90 mg Gal/g and 189.92 mg Gal/g, and total flavonoid contents were 17.34 mg Que/g and 58.38 mg Que/g respectively. The EC50 for DPPH radical scavenging activity of DF and AF were 24.37 μg/ml and 2.10 μg/ml. Reducing power and hydroxyl radical scavenging activities of AF were higher than those of DF. The α-glucosidase inhibitory activity of AF (IC50 = 1.13 μg/ml) was higher than that of DF (IC50 = 5.34 μg/ml). The cell viability was showed that only the DF had anti-proliferation effect on human cancer cell HT-29. These results suggested that both the DF and AF extract of Machilus thunbergii were potential materials for anti-diabetes and functional food for their radical scavenging activity.