Progress in anti-cancer research of American ginseng: with an example of colorectal cancer / 药学学报

Cancer is a group of various diseases, all of which involve unregulated cell growth. Many currently used chemotherapeutic drugs are derived from botanicals. Thus, searching botanical sources for novel oncology medications, including identifying the lead compounds and their derivatives for chemoprevention, is an essential step in advancing cancer therapeutics. This article mainly focuses on the data from our previous American ginseng anti-colon cancer studies. In addition to the potential role of American ginseng on cancer, the herb as an adjuvant for cancer treatment is presented, including describing the attenuation of adverse events induced by chemotherapeutic agents and increasing of quality of cancer patient life. Since heat-treated American ginseng and ginsenoside gut microbiome metabolites showed significant increases in cancer chemopreventive effects, active constituents of the steamed herb and their gut metabolites should be clearly identified, and the structure-activity relationship should be further explored. Data obtained from herbal medicine studies and clinical trials will help develop useful anticancer agents.

Optimization of Cellulase-assited Extraction Technology of the Steam-processed Scutellaria baicalensis by Orthogonal Experiment / 中国药房

OBJECTVIE:To optimize the cellulase-assisted extraction technology of steam-processed Scutellaria baicalensis. METHODS:The cellulase-assisted extraction technology of steam-processed S.baicalensis was optimized by orthogonal experiment with the extraction rates of baicalin and wogonoside as indexes and with cellulase concentration,extracting temperature,extracting time and pH value as factors. RESLUTS:The optimal cellulase-assisted extraction technology of steam-processed S.baicalensis was as follows:the concentration of cellulase was 15 U?g-1; the extracting temperature was 50 ℃; the extracting time was 7 h and the pH value was 4.8. Under the optimal conditions,the extraction rates of baicalin and wogonoside were 8.44% and 2.62%,respectively. CONCLUSION:The cellulase-assisted extraction technology of steam-processed S.baicalensis is superior to the traditional water-decoction method,and it proves to be an effective process for the extraction of baicalin and wogonoside from steam-processed S.baicalensis and by which the utilization rate of S.baicalensis can be improved.