A COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE EXTRACT OF BLACK RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) FOR TREATING AND PREVENTING NEURO-DEGENERATIVE DISEASE

摘要

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition or a healthy food comprising a black rice extract as an active component for treating forgetfulness, and treating and preventing degenerative brain diseases. The extract of the present invention is confirmed to have an excellent memory improvement effect in a Morris water maze test using a BCCAO acquisition-degraded animal model (experimental example 1), controls a Ca^(2+) signal in cells generated by glutamate (experimental example 2), and is confirmed to effectively control cell death by glutamate in a test for evaluating an effect on hippocampus neuron death generated by glutamate (experimental example 1).