Bamboo is a medicinal plant, and has long been used as a traditional/folk medicine and a
food preservative in Japan. Bamboo leaf contains many active ingredients with medicinal …

Cancer is a primary public health problem and the second leading cause of death
worldwide. It causes life‐threatening malignancies and results in high financial costs for both …

Apigenin has gained particular interests in recent years as a beneficial and health promoting
agent because of its low intrinsic toxicity. Vitexin and isovitexin, naturally occurring C …

The anti-glycation activity of four kinds of beans including mung bean, black bean, soybean
and cowpea were evaluated. Aqueous alcohol extract of mung bean exhibited the strongest …

The present study investigated a robust method for the preparation of four flavone C-
glycosides, ie orientin, homoorientin, vitexin and isovitexin, which were prepared from an …

The review is based on the evaluation of electronically collated data published between
2002 to June 2006. It is based on 325 references dealing with the following subclasses of …

Background It is a widespread belief in Asian countries that mung bean soup (MBS) may
afford a protective effect against heat stress. Lack of evidence supports MBS conferring a …

Sasa borealis (Poaceae) is a perennial medicinal plant which is a major source of bamboo
leaves in Korea. The n-BuOH extract of S. borealis leaves exhibited significant antioxidant …

This study was carried out to evaluate the feasibility of using near infrared (NIR)
spectroscopy for determining three antioxidant activity indices of the extract of bamboo …

Interest in the antioxidant activity of bamboo leaves is growing. To discover new sources of
natural antioxidants, a TLC bioautography method combined with a new image processing …