- 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.