Hypolipidemic activity of low-cholesterol ovum oil of Rana chensinensis and phytosterol (stigmasterol) in rats / 浙江大学学报（英文版）（B辑：生物医学和生物技术）

The ovum oil of forest frog has various health beneficial functions. In the current research, we evaluated the hypolipidemic effects of the low-cholesterol ovum oil from the forest frog and its combination with stigmasterol in rats.

Discrimination of Rana dybowskii,Its Analogues and Counterfeits Based on Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoretograms Combined with Cluster Analysis and Multivariate Statistical Analysis / 中国实验方剂学杂志

Objective:To establish an effective classification and identification method for sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) maps of Rana dybowskii,its analogues and counterfeits based on cluster analysis and multivariate statistical analysis. Method:SDS-PAGE maps of 18 batches of R. dybowskii,its analogues and 2 counterfeits were obtained by SDS-PAGE method. SDS-PAGE maps were transformed into data matrix. NTSYSpc 2.10e statistical analysis software was used for cluster analysis,and SMICA-P 14.1 software was used for multivariate statistical analysis. Unsupervised Principal Component Analysis (PCA),Supervised Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) and Orthogonal Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (OPLS-DA) were performed for multivariate analysis and evaluation. Result:SDS-PAGE maps technology combined with cluster analysis and multivariate statistical analysis could accurately classify and identify R. dybowskii,its analogues and counterfeits. Cluster analysis could cluster four kinds of medicinal materials into four branches except No.1 medicinal materials. PCA results were superior to cluster analysis. Supervised PLS-DA and OPLS-DA results in multivariate statistical analysis were superior to unsupervised PCA. The classification and identification efficiencies of OPLS-DA were better than those of unsupervised PCA. OPLS-DA aggregated R. dybowskii,its analogues and 2 counterfeits into four groups. Six different protein components were obtained by comprehensive analysis of variable importance in projection (VIP) value, and OPLS-DA Bi load diagram,with relative molecular weights were 51.363,35.838,14.565,17.563,15.358 and 21.696 kDa,respectively. Conclusion:SDS-PAGE maps combined with cluster analysis and multivariate statistical analysis can be used as an effective method to classify and identify R. dybowskii,its analogues and counterfeits. This study provides a reference for the quality evaluation and screening of R. dybowskii.

Identification of Ranae Oviductus original animal based on COI sequences / 中国中药杂志

Ranae Oviductus has a high economic and social value, but its adulterants are more numerous, which causes a great confusion to the market. Using DNA bar code technology based on COI sequence for PCR amplification and sequencing of the identified Rana dybowskii, R. chensinensis, R. huanrensis and R. amurensiss, the COI gene database of four species of Rana was established, and comparing the measured sequence with the sequence of GenBank, four kinds of Rana were identified. The MEGA (molecular evolutionary genetics analysis) 7 .0 software was used to calculate the genetic distance of K2P and construct the NJ (neighbor-joining) system cluster tree. The sequence of the four species of Rana measured were clustered into one group with the sequence of the four kinds of Rana downloaded from GenBank, but separated from the two outer groups downloaded from GenBank. The COI gene of the R. dybowskii was likely to have regional differences, however this technique failed to distinguish male and female Rana. The results showed that DNA bar code technology could accurately identify the base of original animal of R. oviductus. It indicates that DNA bar code COI provides a new method for the identification of R. oviductus.