Abstract: A composition including Yukgunjatang as effective component is effective for improving memory and preventing, alleviating, or treating cognitive disorder. Yukgunjatang, which is prepared by boiling a mixture of Gingseng Radix, Atractylodes rhizoma alba, Hoelen, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Aurantii Nobilis Pericarpium, Pinelliae Rhizoma, Zingiberis Rhizoma, and Zizyphi Fructus in water, exhibits superior neuroprotective effect compared to individual extracts of Gingseng Radix, Atractylodes rhizoma alba, Hoelen, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Aurantii Nobilis Pericarpium, Pinelliae Rhizoma, Zingiberis Rhizoma, and Zizyphi Fructus, and, in an animal model of cognitive decline induced by scopolamine, administration of Yukgunjatang shows the effect of improving memory and cognitive function. Thus, the composition can be advantageously used as a food product, a medicinal product, or the like for preventing or treating brain diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and mild cognitive impairment.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition and a health functional food composition for preventing, treating, or improving muscular diseases have licorice extract or a fraction thereof, or a compound isolated therefrom or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active ingredient. The licorice extract or a fraction thereof, the compound or salt thereof induce the myoblasts proliferation and promote the differentiation into myotubes, and since the licorice extract or a fraction thereof, the compound or salt thereof has an excellent effect on regenerating damaged muscles, various muscle diseases are effectively prevented, improved or treated using the composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fiber for manufacturing a stretchable hydrophobic fiber article, the fiber including silica nanoparticles which are surface-modified such that the silica nanoparticles include a hydrocarbon chain, and a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, a stretchable hydrophobic fiber article manufactured therefrom, and a manufacturing method thereof. A fiber and a fiber article according to the present disclosure may have high hydrophobicity, preferably both superhydrophobicity and elasticity. Further, as the fiber and fiber article have excellent mechanical stability and chemical durability, the fiber and fiber article may stably exhibit the aforementioned high hydrophobicity and elasticity even under the harsh conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition and a health functional food composition, which include phloroglucinol active ingredient, for preventing, treating, or ameliorating somnipathy and suppressing intolerance to, alleviating, or ameliorating side effects of an agonist at the benzodiazepine binding site of the GABA-A receptor. The pharmaceutical composition and the food composition rapidly and reliably induce and maintain sleep, prevent repeated awakenings, unalter physiological sleep architecture, are particularly devoid of residual sedative effects, which could impair daytime functioning and cognitive performance, and neither cause side effects nor intolerance to a conventional agonist at the benzodiazepine binding site of the GABA-A receptor despite long-term administration.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition and a health functional food composition for preventing, treating, or improving muscular diseases have licorice extract or a fraction thereof, or a compound isolated therefrom or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active ingredient. The licorice extract or a fraction thereof, the compound or salt thereof induce the myoblasts proliferation and promote the differentiation into myotubes, and since the licorice extract or a fraction thereof, the compound or salt thereof has an excellent effect on regenerating damaged muscles, various muscle diseases are effectively prevented, improved or treated using the composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fiber for manufacturing a stretchable hydrophobic fiber article, the fiber including silica nanoparticles which are surface-modified such that the silica nanoparticles include a hydrocarbon chain, and a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, a stretchable hydrophobic fiber article manufactured therefrom, and a manufacturing method thereof. A fiber and a fiber article according to the present disclosure may have high hydrophobicity, preferably both superhydrophobicity and elasticity. Further, as the fiber and fiber article have excellent mechanical stability and chemical durability, the fiber and fiber article may stably exhibit the aforementioned high hydrophobicity and elasticity even under the harsh conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating somnipathy including phloroglucinol as an active ingredient and a health functional food composition for ameliorating somnipathy including phloroglucinol as an active ingredient. The pharmaceutical composition and the health functional food composition according to the present invention rapidly and reliably induce and maintain sleep, prevent repeated awakenings, unalter physiological sleep architecture, are particularly devoid of residual sedative effects, which could impair daytime functioning and cognitive performance, do not cause tolerance to a conventional agonist at the benzodiazepine binding site of the GABA-A receptor despite long-term administration, and do not cause side effects of a conventional agonist at the benzodiazepine binding site of the GABA-A receptor.