Impact of Standardized Rhus verniciflua Stokes Extract as Complementary Therapy on Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Korean Single-Center Experience

Integrative Cancer Therapies 2009

Background. To investigate the clinical feasibility of the standardized Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) extract for the metastatic color...

Effects of the Detoxified Extract of Rhus verniciflua on Regulation of Catecholamine Biosynthesis

Journal Of The Korean Society For Applied Biological Chemistry 2009

Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) has traditionally been used as a food supplement and traditional herbal medicine for centuries in Korea,...

Selective Cytotoxic Effects on Human Cancer Cell Lines of Phenolic-Rich Ethyl-Acetate Fraction from Rhus verniciflua Stokes

American Journal Of Chinese Medicine 2009

Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) is a plant with a long history of medicinal use in Eastern Asia. RVS has been widely used to treat gastr...

Rhus verniciflua Stokes prevents cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity and reactive oxygen species production in MDCK-I renal cells and intact mice

Phytomedicine 2009

Cisplatin-induced oxidative stress can cause liver and kidney damage, thus limiting therapeutic efficacy. Thus, in the present study, ...

Inhibition of the PI3K-Akt/PKB survival pathway enhanced an ethanol extract of Rhus verniciflua Stokes-induced apoptosis via a mitochondrial pathway in AGS gastric cancer cell lines

Cancer Letters 2008

Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) has been used in traditional Eastern Asia medicine for the treatment of gastritis and stomach cancer, al...

Protective effects of fustin, a flavonoid from Rhus verniciflua Stokes, on 6-hydroxydopamine-induced neuronal cell death

Experimental And Molecular Medicine 2007

6-Hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) is a neurotoxin and is commonly used to generate experimental models of Parkinson`s disease (PD). In this s...

Glycoprotein isolated from Rhus verniciflua STOKES inhibits inflammation-related protein and nitric oxide production in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 cells

Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 2007

Rhus verniciflua STOKES (RVS) has traditionally been used for medical purpose, such as healing of inflammatory diseases in South Korea...

Caspase-independent death of human osteosarcoma cells by flavonoids is driven by p53-mediated mitochondrial stress and nuclear translocation of AIF and endonuclease G

Apoptosis 2007

Flavonoids have antioxidant and antitumor promoting effects. Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) is a flavonoid-rich herbal medicine that ha...

Phenolic-rich fraction from Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) suppress inflammatory response via NF-kappa B and JNK pathway in lipopolysaccharide-induced RAW 264.7 macrophages

Journal Of Ethnopharmacology 2007

The effects of phenolic-rich fraction (PRF) from Rhus verniciflua Stokes (Anacardiaceae) on the activities of cellular signaling molec...

Hypolipidemic and antioxidative effects of the plant glycoprotein (36 kDa) from Rhus verniciflua stokes fruit in Triton WR-1339-induced hyperlipidemic mice

Bioscience Biotechnology And Biochemistry 2006

We investigated the hypolipidemic and antioxidative effects on male ICR mice of a glycoprotein isolated from Rhus verniciflua Stokes (...