Antitumor activity of β-D-glucan from Libyan dates

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 252-255

  Ishurd, Omar ^a,b   Zgheel, Faraj ^b   Kermagi, Adel ^b   Flefla, Mansur ^b   Elmabruk, Mohamed ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Biotechnology Research Center   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

D glucan; Dates; Polysaccharides

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CANCER INHIBITION; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATE (FRUIT); DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOMODULATION; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRUIT; GLUCANS; LIBYA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PHYTOTHERAPY; SARCOMA 180;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 3042751068     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1096620041224085     Document Type: Article

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