Rhus verniciflua stokes extract: Radical scavenging activities and protective effects on H2O2-induced cytotoxicity in macrophage RAW 264.7 cell lines

Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 2006

The goal of this study was to determine the effects of Rhus verniciflua stokes (RVS) on the radical scavenging activities and H2O2-ind...

Rhus verniciflua Stokes glycoprotein (36 kDa) has protective activity on carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury in mice

Environmental Toxicology And Pharmacology 2006

This study was carried out to investigate the hepatoprotective effect of the glycoprotein isolated from Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS),...

Inhibition of cell cycle progression via p27(Kip1) upregulation and apoptosis induction by an ethanol extract of Rhus verniciflua Stokes in AGS gastric cancer cells

International Journal Of Molecular Medicine 2006

Botanical preparations are widely used by patient with cancer in Korea, Japan and China. Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) has traditional...

Anti-platelet effects of bioactive compounds isolated from the bark of Rhus verniciflua Stokes

Journal Of Ethnopharmacology 2006

It has previously been shown that EtOAc extracts of Rhus vemiciflua Stokes (RVS),inhibit the platelet aggregation response. In this re...

36kDa glycoprotein isolated from Rhus verniciflua stokes inhibits G/GO-Induced mitochondrial apoptotic signal pathways in BNL CL.2 cells

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology 2005

Rhus verniciflua Stokes is one of the medicinal plants traditionally used to heal and treat hepatic and inflammatory diseases. We foun...

36kDa Glycoprotein isolated from Rhus verniciflua Stokes fruit has a protective activity to glucose/glucose oxidase-induced apoptosis in NIH/3T3 cells

Toxicology In Vitro 2005

The present study was carried out to investigate the antioxidative and antiapoptotic activities of 36kDa RVS glycoprotein isolated fro...

Flavonoids purified from Rhus verniciflua Stokes actively inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis in human osteosarcoma cells

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects 2005

Many studies have suggested that dietary flavonoids are anticancer agents that induce the apoptosis of cancer cells. However, the effe...

Selective antiproliferative and apoptotic effects of flavonoids purified from Rhus verniciflua Stokes on normal versus transformed hepatic cell lines

Toxicology Letters 2005

Considerable attention is being concentrated on dietary flavonoids in developing novel cancer-preventive approaches due to their poten...

Extract from Rhus verniciflua Stokes is capable of inhibiting the growth of human lymphoma cells

Food And Chemical Toxicology 2004

Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS), used as a food additive and a traditional herbal medicine, has both antioxidant and antitumor activitie...

The chalcone butein from Rhus verniciflua shows antifibrogenic activity

Planta Medica 2003

Butein is known to be the major component of the bark of Rhus verniciflua Stokes (Anacardiaceae). The aim of this work was to investig...