Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University

Young-Sook Moon

Cheol-Hee Choi

Ju-Hee Han

Hoon Cho

Kyoung-In Lee

Hyun-Jung Kim

Ji-Won Han

Provided is a use ofextract as an agent for preventing and treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, and more particularly, a composition for preventing and treating benign prostatic hyperplasia and a functional health food for preventing and reducing the effects of benign prostatic hyperplasia, in which the composition and food include, as an active ingredient, aextract or a compound which is isolated from the extract and then purified.

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Provided is a 15-PGDH activity adjusting function of aextract. More specifically, since it has been confirmed that theextract has an outstanding effect in suppressing 15-PGDH activity and so increasing PGE, a composition of the present invention which contains theextract as an active ingredient has the advantage of being able to be used for producing a functional health food and a therapeutic agent for a disease associated with PGE.

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