title: Effects of the aerial parts of Orostachys japonicus and its bioactive component on hepatic alcohol-metabolizing enzyme system.
abstract: In the course of screening medicinal plants that modulate hepatic alcohol-metabolizing enzymes and lipid peroxidation, effects of the methanol extract (ME) of Orostachys japonicus and its major bioactive compound, gallic acid (GA), were investigated in rats treated with 10% ethanol solution for 6 weeks. The ME and GA greatly enhanced the activities of hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the microsomal ethanol-oxidizing system (MEOS), and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) in a dose-dependent manner, but had no effect on catalase. The hepatic lipid peroxide level increased by ethanol administration was moderately reduced by treatment with ME or GA. The results suggest that the detoxification of hepatic alcohol by O. japonicus ME under our experimental conditions was due to the enhanced activities of the alcohol-oxidizing enzymes, ADH, MEOS, and ALDH. In addition, GA may be partly responsible for the effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oriental Medicine Resources and Research Institute of Korean Oriental Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jong Moon
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hur
authors.forename: Jong Cheol
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism; D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D029627:Crassulaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism*; D005707:Gallic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D000432:Methanol; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology; D018514:Plant Structures / Q000737:chemistry; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts; D000431:Ethanol; D005707:Gallic Acid; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases; C092153:microsomal ethanol-oxidizing system; D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase; D002374:Catalase; D000444:Aldehyde Dehydrogenase; D000432:Methanol