Provided are novel use of an extract of Lycoris chejuensis or a compound isolated therefrom for inhibition of .beta.-amyloid production and/or prevention, improvement and/or treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, more specifically a .beta.-amyloid production inhibitor, and/or a composition for prevention or treatment of a neurodegenerative disease containing one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of an extract of Lycoris chejuensis, and/or dihydrolycoricidine, 2-methoxypancracine, lycoricidine, and/or lycoricidinol, as an active ingredient; a method for inhibiting .beta.-amyloid production, and/or preventing and/or treating a neurodegenerative disease using the same; and, a method for preparing the same.

Yang; Hyun-Ok

Kwon; Hak-Cheol

Park; Jin-Soo

Chung; Sung-Kwon

Kim; Myung-Soo

KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Method of preventing and/or treating a neurodegenerative disease by administering an extract of Lycoris chejuensis and/or a compound isolated therefrom

lycoricidine

нейрадэгенератыўныя захворванні

neurodegenerative diseases

lycoricidine/нейрадэгенератыўныя захворванні

Method of preventing and/or treating a neurodegenerative disease by administering an extract of Lycoris chejuensis and/or a compound isolated therefrom

Самая поўная база дадзеных пра лекавыя травы, падтрыманая навукай