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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2019
Applicant:
Lemonex Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Cheol Hee Won, Seoul, KR;
Jun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
LEMONEX INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 36/61 (2006.01); A23L 33/105 (2016.01); A61P 27/02 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 36/61 (2013.01); A23L 33/105 (2016.08); A61K 9/0053 (2013.01); A61P 27/02 (2018.01); A61K 2236/333 (2013.01); A61K 2236/51 (2013.01);
Abstract
A composition according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a banaba leaf extract, a guava leaf extract or a mixture thereof. The composition inhibits photooxidation of A2E due to blue light, inhibits a death of retinal pigment epithelial cells induced by blue light, and inhibits a damage to outer nuclear layers of visual cells in an animal model with blue light-induced macular degeneration, and thus can be beneficially used as a composition for preventing or treating macular degeneration and as a health functional food for preventing or alleviating macular degeneration.