Pharmaceutical composition and functional health food for preventing or treating macular degeneration
AssigneeLemonex Inc.
InventorsCheol Hee Won, Jun Kim
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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.
Claims9
A method for treating macular degeneration comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a composition comprising an effective amount of a banaba leaf extract.
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