University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation

Yonsei University

Ha Won Kim

Dong Hee Lee

Tae Sun Park

Wan Kyun Hwang

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating autoimmune diseases having cedrol or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient. Particularly, the cedrol or the derivative thereof of the present invention inhibits the expression of IL-17A, and in particular, cedrol, cedryl acetate, and cedrene exhibit the effect of delaying the outbreak of psoriasis and treating thereof in a psoriasis animal model. Therefore, these compounds can be used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases mediated by IL-17.

Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating autoimmune diseases comprising cedrol or derivatives thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof

Cosmetic composition for preventing or ameliorating hypersensitive skin comprising cedrol or derivatives thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof

The present invention relates to a novel use for the compound of Chemical formula 1 in order to produce drugs or foods for the prevention or treatment of obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, metabolic syndrome or the like, and to a composition for the prevention or treatment of obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, metabolic syndrome or the like which contains the compound of Chemical formula 1 as an active ingredient, and also to a method for the prevention or treatment of obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, metabolic syndrome or the like comprising the administration of the compound of Chemical formula 1 to a mammal in a therapeutically effective dose. According to the present invention, the compound of Chemical formula 1 has been confirmed to suppress the differentiation of adipocytes, to reduce body weight and the amount of visceral fat, to reduce concentrations of cholesterol, triglycerides, free fatty acids and glucose which are associated with fatty liver and diabetes and the like and to reduce the fatty component in liver tissue, to suppress gene expression associated with obesity in visceral fatty tissue, and to increase the amount of expression of UCP1 and UCP3 which are UCP (uncoupling protein) genes involved in thermogenesis. The compound of Chemical formula 1 can be used to advantage in order to prevent or treat obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and the like since, unlike the obesity treating agents based on synthetic drugs currently in use, it is based on a natural substance and hence entails a very low risk of adverse effects and, additionally, it exhibits its pharmacological effects by regulating the expression of genes associated with obesity rather than exhibiting pharmacological effects by acting on enzymes or the nervous system.

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Ha Won Kim