著者
Sasaki Hideki Akiyama Hiroshi Yoshida Yoshifumi KONDO Kazunari AMAKURA Yoshiaki KASAHARA Yoshimasa MAITANI Tamio
出版者
公益社団法人日本薬学会
雑誌
Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin (ISSN:09186158)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.12, pp.2514-2518, 2006-12-01
被引用文献数
4 20

In autumn 2004, many Japanese patients with renal failure developed cryptogenic encephalopathy by consuming sugihiratake mushroom, a Japanese delicacy. To elucidate the relationship between the cryptogenic cases and this mushroom, we conducted a multivariate analysis of metabolites in 'Probably Toxic' sugihiratake collected from the area of encephalopathy outbreaks, and 'Probably Safe' sugihiratake collected from unaffected areas using UPLC/ToF MS. The results indicate that the presence of milligram quantities of vitamin D-like compounds per 10g of dried sugihiratake from the areas of encephalopathy outbreaks. Two hypotheses to induce the encephalopathy are proposed: the found metabolites are (1) vitamin D agonists, which induce acute and severe hypercalcemia and/or hyperammonemia and/or vitamin D toxicity, or (2) vitamin D antagonists, which induce acute and severe hypocalcemia.
著者
Kanda Tomomasa Akiyama Hiroshi Yanagida Akio TANABE Masayuki GODA Yukihiro TOYODA Masatake TESHIMA Reiko SAITO Yukio
出版者
社団法人日本農芸化学会
雑誌
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry (ISSN:09168451)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.62, no.7, pp.1284-1289, 1998-07-23
被引用文献数
37 134

The anti-allergic activities of polyphenol fractions extracted from immature fruits of apple (Rosaceae, Malus sp.) were evaluated by in vitro assays. A crude apple polyphenol (CAP) fraction, which had been obtained from the juice of immature apples by reverse-phase column chromatography, was further purified by LH-20 column chromatography to obtain an apple condensed tannin (ACT) fraction consisting of linear oligomeric epicatechins from the dimer to pentadecamer. ACT strongly inhibited the release of histamine from rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells stimulated by the antigen-stimulation and from rat peritoneal mast cells stimulated by compound 48/80. The IC_<50> values for histamine release were 30 μg/ml and 25 μg/ml, respectively. ACT also inhibited hyaluronidase activity and the increase in intracellular free calcium concentration in RBL-2H3 cells stimulated with the antigen. These results suggest that ACT Affected early signal transduction including the calcium influx.