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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1979; 2(1):19-23

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1979.2.1.19

Original Article

Effect of Viscaceae on the Cholesterol biosynthesis in the rat liver tissue

N.E. Sung
Corresponding author: N.E. Sung. Department of Biochemishy, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1979. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Rats being fed with 1% Viscaceae powder containing diet for 10 weeks, total cholesterol in serum and liver tissue decreased by 17% and neutral fat decreased by 10%. And also, hepatic HMG-CoA reductase activity had a tendency to decrease by 43% in the 1% Viscaceae fed group. In saponin fraction of Viscaceae fed group and in alkaloidal fraction of Viscaceae fed group, it had a tendency to decrease by 65%, and 86% expectively.