Abstract
Rhododendron brachycarpum (RB) is a genus of flowering plants generally used for traditional medicine in Korea to treat hypertension, neuralgia, and sterility. Previous studies have shown that RB extract alleviate inflammation and antimicrobial activity. In this study, the effects of RB and its different fractions (n-hexane, ethyl-acetate and n-butanol) on antioxidant activity, DNA damage prevention and the activity of α-glucosidase were studied. The antioxidant ability of RB was investigated in vitro, including that of DPPH-radical and reducing power. As expected, scavenging effect against DPPH-radical of ethyl acetate fraction (IC50 = 17.7 ± 0.5 µg/ml) of RB had the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity, and it was superior to the positive control, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) (IC50 = 80.8 ± 1.5 µg/ml). And the reducing power of RB was 3.18 at 1.0 mg/ml. Meanwhile, the α-glucosidase inhibitory activity and prevention of oxidation stress-induced DNA damage were also highest in the ethyl acetate fraction. Pretreatment of pancreatic β-cells from Syrian golden hamster (HIT-TI5) with the ethyl acetate fraction at concentrations of 300 µg/ml significantly protected the cells from high glucose-induced cell death. Our results indicate that ethyl acetate fraction of RB leaves extract has strong antioxidant, α-glucosidase, and prevention of DNA damage activities, and furthermore, ethyl acetate fraction significantly protected the cells from high glucose-induced cell death.
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