The Study on Chinese Herbal Medicinal Prescription with Enzyme Inhibitory Activity. II. The Study of Kanbaku-taiso-to with Adenosine 3', 5'-Cyclic Monophosphate Phosphodiesterase

Abstract

A Chinese herbal medicinal prescription, Kanbaku-taiso-to, was studied for the inhibitory activity of adenosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) phosphodiesterase. The effect for the inhibitory activity of cAMP phosphodiesterase in combination with constituent crude drugs and difference in kind of crude drugs of the prescription were studied. The inhibitory activity of the prescriptions which were combined with low protein content wheat were higher than that with high protein content wheat.