Planta Med 1989; 55(4): 349-350
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-962025
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Isolation and Hypoglycemic Activity of Trichosans A, B, C, D, and E: Glycans of Trichosanthes kirilowii Roots1

Hiroshi Hikino[2] , Miki Yoshizawa, Yutaka Suzuki, Yoshiteru Oshima, Chohachi Konno
  • Pharmaceutical Institute, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama, Sendai, Japan
1 Antidiabetes drugs, Part. 29. Also Part 132 in the validity of the Oriental medicines
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1988

Publication Date:
24 January 2007 (online)

Abstract

The non-dialyzable portion of the water extract of the Oriental crude drug “karokon”, the roots of Trichosanthes kirilowii, was found to reduce the plasma glucose level in mice. Activity-guided fractionation of this non-dialyzable portion led to the isolation of five glycans termed as trichosans A, B, C, D and E, showing hypoglycemic actions in normal mice. The main glycan, trichosan A, also exhibited activity in alloxan-induced hyperglycemic mice.

2 Deceased, December 8, 1988

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