Preparation, preliminary characterization, antioxidant, hepatoprotective and antitumor activities of polysaccharides from the flower of tea plant (Camellia sinensis)

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2473-2480

  Xu, Renjie ^a   Ye, Hong ^a   Sun, Yi ^a   Tu, Youying ^b   Zeng, Xiaoxiong ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Antitumor activity; Characterization; Hepatoprotective activity; Polysaccharide; Tea flower

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS POLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOHYDRATE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MALONALDEHYDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SILYMARIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URONIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FLOWER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STOMACH CANCER;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; FEMALE; LIVER; MICE; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; MUS;

EID: 84861421756     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.10.047     Document Type: Article

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