著者

新井 賢 藤本 憲二 橋本 竹二郎 滝島 常雄 小屋 佐久次

出版者

公益社団法人日本薬学会

雑誌

藥學雜誌 (ISSN:00316903)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.107, no.4, pp.279-286, 1987-04-25

被引用文献数

1

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In order to identify the constituents of ethanol-extractable amino acids from Pinus densiflora SIEB. et ZUCC. leaves, high performance liquid chromatography (JASCO TWINCLE amino acids analyzer system) was used. According to the results obtained, ethanol-extractable amino acids confirmed to be such 19 different kinds, as Asp, Thr, Ser, Asn, Glu, Gln, Pro, Gly, Ala, Val, Met, Ile, Leu, Tyr, Phe, Lys, His, Arg and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA). There was a seasonal fluctuation in the amount of free amino acids constituent, and three different patterns of changing in the amount were noticed. The major constituents of free amino acids were found to be GABA and Ala. There were similarities in the patterns of free amino acids contents among new buds, one year leaves and two year leaves. However few amount of Met and His were detected from the stage of the new buds than any other. Basic amino acids were found more in the one year leaves and the two year leaves than in the new buds. The contents of Gln, Lys and Arg increased in the germination stage of the new buds, and the contents of GABA, Pro, Ala and Asn decreased in the growing stage of the new shoots. The above facts lead to the conjecture of that these free amino acids were involved deeply in the growth of Pinus densiflora SIEB. et ZUCC. leaves.

著者

山田 智也

出版者

公益社団法人日本薬学会

雑誌

藥學雜誌 (ISSN:00316903)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.127, no.3, pp.481-490, 2007-03-01

被引用文献数

2

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The potential carcinogenic hazard of chemical agents to humans is presently based primarily on the results of long-term animal bioassays. The validity of this toxicologic approach to human risk assessment depends on two fundamental assumptions. First, the results of an animal bioassay are directly applicable to humans (interspecies extrapolation). Second, the doses used in an animal bioassay are relevant for estimating risk at known or expected human exposure levels (dose extrapolation). Although progress has been made over the past four decades in understanding the mode of action of chemical carcinogens, it is increasingly important to determine mechanistically the relevance of these modes of action in humans. There is now evidence that M6P/IGF2R functions as a novel tumor-suppressor gene in a variety of human and rodent cancers. M6p/Igf2r is imprinted in rodents and expressed only from the maternal allele after embryonic implantation. In contrast, both alleles are functional in humans. This marked species difference in M6P/IGF2R imprinting has important implications for human carcinogen risk assessment since only one rather than two alleles needs to be mutated in rodents to completely inactivate the function of this tumor suppressor gene. This striking species difference in the imprint status of M6P/IGF2R clearly demonstrates that we need to understand better variations in epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation between rodents and humans to perform accurately chemical safety assessments.

著者

石川 治 橋本 勉 中嶋 暉躬 田中 治 糸川 秀治

出版者

公益社団法人日本薬学会

雑誌

藥學雜誌 (ISSN:00316903)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.98, no.7, pp.976-979, 1978-07-25

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For the analysis of Coptidis Rhizoma, high-speed liquid chromatography was examined, not only for its major alkaloid, berberine, but also for its minor alkaloids. It was found that under an appropriate condition [on starch gel (LS-170), eluted with the solvent system of H_2O : MeCN : AcOH : Et_3N=80 : 20 : 0.3 : 0.745,pH 8.5], sufficient separation of berberine, magnoflorine, jatrorrhizine, palmatine, coptisine, and some other unidentified alkaloids was obtained. By means of the present procedure, content of berberine and relative content of palmatine and coptisine to berberine in some of wild and commercial coptis rhizomes were determined. Since the solvent system does not contain any nonvolatile salt, the present technique also offers the possibility of application to rapidpreparative separation of alkaloids of this type by liquid chromatography. The application to analysis of alkaloids of phellodendron-cortex is also described.