Genetic genes of medicinal components of Glycyrrhiza uralensis
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Last Update: 2011-11-29
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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A research team from Osaka University in Japan found the genetic gene of Glycyrrhiza, a plant often used in traditional Chinese medicine, to make pharmaceutical ingredients, and successfully produced the pharmaceutical ingredients of Glycyrrhiza The pharmaceutical components of Glycyrrhiza have the functions of enhancing liver function and anti-inflammatory, and they are also the "drug introducers" of various traditional Chinese medicines In Japan, about 70% of 210 prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine have licorice ingredients in addition to pharmaceuticals China and other countries mainly rely on wild licorice The team found that two genes were involved in the synthesis of glycyrrhetinic acid, the medicinal ingredient of Glycyrrhiza They combined the gene with an enzyme extracted from the lotus of the same legume to produce glycyrrhetinic acid Professor junzai Nakamura, who is in charge of the research, believes that the research may be applied to the industrial production of medicinal ingredients of Glycyrrhiza uralensis They plan to increase production in the future, and at the same time, they will carry out experiments on other plants, such as soybeans, to study the feasibility of application The research results were published in the electronic edition of plant cell, an American scientific journal, published on November 29.
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