Chemical structures of saponins from seeds of edible horse chestnuts (Aesculus turbinata) after treatment with wooden ashes and their hypoglycemic activity

Nippon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogaku Kaishi

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 672-679

  Kimura, Hideto ^a,b   Watanabe, Ai ^b   Jisaka, Mitsuo ^a,c   Yamamoto, Tatsuyuki ^a,c   Kimura, Yasuo ^a,d   Katsube, Takuya ^e   Yokota, Kazushige ^a,c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kotobuki Seika Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SHIMANE INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; AESCULUS TURBINATA; EQUUS CABALLUS; HIPPOCASTANUM;

EID: 13844321073     PISSN: 1341027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3136/nskkk.51.672     Document Type: Article

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