Effects of White Lotus Extracts on Sleeping, Chloride Influx, and Oxidation

This study was conducted to investigate whether the white lotus extracts could enhance the pentobarbital-induced sleeping behaviors and chloride influx, as well as have an antioxidant function. When accessing the effect on sleeping behaviors, extract from the dried mature leaf (DML) increased sleepi...

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Published inFood science and biotechnology Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 949 - 954
Main Authors Oh, Suk-Heung, Yu, Jin-Ju, Kim, Hae-Jin, Oh, Ki-Wan, Eun, Jae-Soon
Format Journal Article
LanguageKorean
Published 2011
Subjects
chloride influx
antioxidant
white lotus
sleeping
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Summary:This study was conducted to investigate whether the white lotus extracts could enhance the pentobarbital-induced sleeping behaviors and chloride influx, as well as have an antioxidant function. When accessing the effect on sleeping behaviors, extract from the dried mature leaf (DML) increased sleeping time more than twice compared with the control group. Also, the DML extract increased chloride influx in primary cultured cerebellar granule cells. The antioxidant function of white lotus extracts derived from young leaf, DML, and ovary had similar performance when being compared to ascorbic acid. The result suggested that white lotus extracts could contain components that are able to potentiate pentobarbital-induced sleep behaviors and to activate chloride channel, as well as antioxidant function.
Bibliography:KISTI1.1003/JNL.JAKO201120241367616
ISSN:1226-7708
2092-6456