Tae Sik Sung,Seung-Bum Ryoo,Chang-Hyun Lee,Seon-Min Choi,Joo-Won Nam,Hyun-Bok Kim,Ji young Lee,Jung-Dae Lim,Kyu Joo Park,Hyun-Tai Lee
The fruit ofMorus albaL. (MAF) has been consumed as a food worldwide. MAF has also been widely used in traditional medicine for thousands of years in East Asia, and its diverse bioactivities have been reported in numerous publications. However, no prokinetic activity has been reported for MAF or its components. In the present study, therefore, we investigated the effects of MAF on gastrointestinal motor function by measuring the intestinal transit rate (ITR) of Evans blue in mice in vivo. The ITR values accelerated by MAF were significantly higher than those accelerated by cisapride or metoclopramide, suggesting that MAF has potential as a new prokinetic agent to replace cisapride and metoclopramide. We also investigated the effects of MAF on myogenic and neurogenic contractions in human intestinal smooth muscles by measuring spontaneous contractions of smooth muscle strips, smooth muscle contractions induced by neural stimulation, and migrating motor complexes from intestinal segments in the human ileum and sigmoid colon in situ. MAF increased both myogenic and neurogenic contractions to enhance ileal and colonic motility in the human intestine. Taken together, these results indicate that MAF enhanced intestinal motility by increasing both myogenic and neurogenic contractions, thereby accelerating the ITR.Keywords:intestinal transit;Morus alba;mulberry fruit;myogenic contraction;neurogenic contraction;prokinetic;smooth muscle
Increasing evidence indicates that crude extracts derived from mulberry confer protection against oxidative stress. However, the antioxidant capacity of mulberry extract among different cultivars remains elusive. The main objective of the present study was therefore to investigate the effect of black mulberry extract (BMB) and white mulberry extract (WMB) on ethyl carbamate (EC)-induced cytotoxicity and oxidative stress. This study showed that the contents of total phenolics, total flavonoids, total procyanidins, cyanidin- 3 - O -glucoside, cyanidin- 3 - O -rutinoside and pelargonidin- 3 - O -glucoside of BMB were higher than that of WMB. Moreover, our results showed that phenolics-abundant BMB was stronger than WMB in scavenging ABTS and DPPH free radicals. BMB was more effective in ameliorating EC-induced cytotoxicity by inhibiting excessive ROS generation, suppressing mitochondrial dysfunction and increasing GSH concentration in HepG2 cells than WMB. Taken together, our study revealed that BMB afforded better protection against EC-caused cytotoxicity than WMB.
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