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New Perspectives on Aloe

Young In Park

Seung Ki Lee

Editors

With 85 Figures, Including 16 Color Plates

Young In Park

Korea University

Seoul, Korea

yipark@korea.ac.kr

Seung Ki Lee

Seoul National University

Seoul, Korea

sklcrs@snu.ac.kr

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005939017

ISBN-10: 0-387-31799-6

ISBN-13: 978-0387-31799-1

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Preface

The CAP project for comprehensive aloe research was launched in June 1993

and completed its first stage in 2001. I am deeply moved by this publication con-

taining eight years’ research outcome on aloe.

Before launching the CAP project, some members of the CAP research team

did not know the real nature of aloe, or simply recognized it as a “functional

health food or a dietary supplements” that is used as more of a panacea. In

January 1993, I was invited to visit Aloecorp, an America-based local corporation

and aloe plantation located in Harlingen, Texas and Tampico, Mexico. Together

with several members of CAP research, I took part in that journey, and all of us

were very impressed with the aloe industry. In particular, the seminar organized

by American aloe researchers was so impressive it led us to have special interest

in aloe. In retrospect, we maintained continuous discussions on aloe around the

clock. We felt that we became very enthusiastic about aloe, ended up calling our-

selves crazy aloe people (CAP). Thus, our project was named the “CAP Project”

and it was the beginning of the new Creation of Aloe Pharmaceuticals (CAP).

The CAP project was commenced in June after the visit, and since its begin-

ning, we organized a systematic research team to pursue aloe research. Dr. Seung

Ki Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, and twelve other professors from

various universities in Korea joined the team. An additional twenty-six professors

from prominent universities and their staff have participated in the project.

Many active ingredients from natural aloe have been isolated and analyzed.

These conclude that aloe is medically effective in the following cases: promoting

liver cell growth, angiogenesis, growth of epithelial cells, anti-allergic effect, skin

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whitening effect, and protective effect on nephrotoxicity. These results became the

groundwork for the development of functional health foods and cosmetics.

Especially, the “development of tolyl-based skin whitening agent” project was

proven scientifically reliant, as it was adopted as one of the G7 projects by the

Ministry of Science and Technology in Korea. In addition, the “Raman whitening

product,” which was produced on the basis of the project, was awarded the “IR52

Jang Young-Shil” prize by the Korea Industrial Technology Association and

Maeil Economy Newspaper contest in 1998. It was the first case that a cosmetics

corporation received an award in the industry. In addition, a study on utilizing an

anti-allergic substance, Alprogen, was also adopted as one of the G7 projects and

continued for five years. “Development of Prokidin as a protective agent against

Cispatin induced nephrotoxicity” was also selected as one of core projects by the

Ministry of Health and Welfare. All of these R&D efforts resulted in seven domestic

patents and several international pending patents.

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