Antidiabetic Functional Foods Research Articles

Suppression of blood glucose level by a new fermented tea obtained by tea‐rolling processing of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) and green tea leaves in disaccharide‐loaded Sprague‐Dawley rats

In the field of food science, much interest has been focused on the development of alternative medicinal foods with the ability to regulate excess blood glucose level (BGL) rise. The authors have successfully developed a new fermented tea product (LG tea) by co-fermentation of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) leaf and summer-harvested green tea leaf. The objective of this study was to examine the acute suppression effect of LG tea on BGL rise in disaccharide-loaded Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats and to evaluate its possible usage as an antidiabetic functional food material. As a result of single oral administration of hot water extract of LG tea (50 mg kg(-1)) to maltose-loaded SD rats, BGL at 30 min was significantly decreased by 23.8% (P < 0.01) compared with the control. A corresponding reduction in serum insulin secretion was also observed. The ED(50) value of LG tea (50.7 mg kg(-1)) was estimated to be about 16-fold higher than that of the therapeutic drug acarbose (3.1 mg kg(-1)). No significant change in BGL was observed when sucrose or glucose was administered, suggesting that the suppression effect of LG tea was achieved by maltase inhibition, not by sucrase inhibition or glucose transport inhibition at the intestinal membrane.

대전지역 제 2형 당뇨병 환자의 항당뇨기능성 식품 섭취 실태조사

The present study was investigated on type 2 diabetics' actual status of anti-diabetic functional food intake by patients who came to oriental medicine clinics in Daejeon. The male was 37.3% and female was 62.7% of the subjects. The onset of the disease was most common in the age of 50's. Also 40% of the subjects have been suffering for more than 5 years. 35.7% of men, 53.2% for women had family history. Also 61.5% of the patients chose to carry out both diabetic therapy and exercise at the same time. 69.3% of the subjects have had experiences in anti-diabetic functional foods. Anti-diabetic functional foods used to surveyed people were bean, ginseng, and ginseng steamed red of which efficacies were already well known. Besides these foods, other foods such as loach, crucian carp were also used as anti-diabetic foods, but their benefits as anti-diabetic functional foods are not yet fully investigated. Subjects first knew about the therapy because friends or relatives recommended to them and most of them have used for 6 months to 1 year. However, 78.9% of subjects answered 'not so effective' in a question about satisfaction of anti-diabetic functional food. Although many of the patients have tried taking functional foods, they only use them for short period of time and they don't show prominent effect. Therefore these results suggest that in order to use scientifically studied functional foods, education about anti-diabetic functional foods should taken.

한약재의 물 추출물이 당대사 관련 효소와 항산화 활성에 관한 연구

본 연구에서는 제2형 당뇨병를 가진 GK 흰쥐(Goto-Kakizaki) 간에서 추출한 cytosol과 심장에서 추출한 mitochondria를 이용한 모델계에서 당대사 관련 효소인 glucokinase glucokinase(GCK), pyruvate dehydrogenase(PDH), acetyl-CoA carboxylase(ACC) 및 glucosidase 활성에 대한 한약재의 물 추출물의 항당뇨 효과를 연구하였다. 그리고 역시 그들의 물 추출물의 free radical 소거활성을 DPPH 방법으로 알아보았다. Free radical 소거활성은 산수유(CF), 목단피(MDB), 천화분(CHB) 그리고 산약(SY)의 물 추출물이 강했고 반면에 백목령(BBR), 숙지황(SGH)과 택사(TS)는 낮은 소거작용을 나타내었다. 간 cytosol의 GCK 활성은 산수유(CF)와 천화분(CHB)에서 다른 추출물보다 더 강했다. 심장 미토콘드리아의 PDH 활성은 택사(TS)를 제외하고 모든 추출물에서 대조군과 비교하여 높았다. 간 cytosol의 ACC 활성은 대조군보다 산수유(CF), 천화분(CHB), 숙지황(SGH), 택사(TS) 그리고 산약(SY) 추출물에서 높았다. 산수유(CF), 백복령(BBR) 및 목단피(MDB) 추출물은 α-glucosidase 활성 감소를 유도했다. 따라서 모든 추출물은 혈당 상승을 억제할 수 있는 항당뇨 기능성식품이나 약품 개발을 위한 기능성 천연 소재로 이용될 수 있을 가능성을 제시하였다.

Cordyceps militaris 성분이 당대사 관련 효소 활성에 미치는 영향

C. militaris 동충하초의 기능성을 규명하기 위하여 당대사 관련 효소인 GK, PDH 및 ACC 활성을 측정하였다. C.militaris에서 추출된 CM-A와 CM-B는 GK와 PDH 및 ACC 효소에 대하여 대조군에 비해 높은 활성을 나타냈으며, CM-B보다는 CM-A에서 유의적으로 높은 활성 증가를 나타냈다(p＜0.05). 간세포내 당질 관련 효소의 활성은 CM-A와 CM-B 분획물의 혼합 비율에 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났는데 활성이 높은 CM-A의 비율이 커질수록 유의적으로 높은 활성 증가를 나타냈다. GK와 ACC는 단일 상태의 CM-A 보다는 혼합된 상태일 때 활성이 증가하였지만, PDH는 혼합된 상태보다는 CM-A 단독일 때 가장 높은 활성을 나타냈다. 결론적으로 C. militaris는 GK, PDH 및 ACC 등의 효소활성을 증가시킴으로써 혈중 포도당의 상승을 억제하며 이로 인해 항당뇨 작용을 한다고 판단된다.