Composition for Improving Liver Dysfunction by Alcohol Using an Extract of Artemisia Annua

• Main Authors: CHO JIN HEE, DOH YANG HOI, JEE YOUNG HEUN, KIM A REUM, KALAGE HEWAGE IRESHA NADEEKA MADUSHNI HERATH, KIM JU SUNG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 05.07.2019
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

The present invention discloses a composition for improving alcoholic liver dysfunction using an extract of Artemisia annua treated with ethanol and heat. The Artemisia annua extract increased a survival rate of alcohol-treated hepatocytes and had an effect of inhibiting the fat degeneration of experimental animals induced with fatty liver by alcohol supplementation. 본 발명은 청호의 에탄올 열처리 추출물을 이용한 알코올성 간기능 장애 개선용 조성물을 개시한다. 상기 청호 추출물은 알코올 처리 간세포의 생존율을 증가시켰으며 알코올 급여로 지방간을 유도한 실험동물의 지방 변성을 저해하는 효과를 나타내었다.