Enhancing effect of polysaccharides from an edible brown alga, Hijikia fusiforme (Hijiki), on release of tumor necrosis factor-α from macrophages of endotoxin-nonresponder C3H/HeJ mice

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74-79

  Okai, Yasuji ^a   Higashi Okai, Kiyoka ^a   Ishizaka, Shigeaki ^b   Yamashita, Uki ^c  

^a Osaka Kun ei Women's College   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALGA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEAWEED;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; HIJIKIA; HIJIKIA FUSIFORME; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0031014277     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589709514505     Document Type: Article

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