Structural characterization and immunological activities of the water-soluble oligosaccharides isolated from the Panax ginseng roots

Planta

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1289-1297

  Wan, Debin ^a,b   Jiao, Lili ^c   Yang, Hongmei ^a,b   Liu, Shuying ^a,c  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

ESI MS MS; FT IR; Ginseng oligosaccharide; HPLC; In vitro immunological activity; Structural elucidation

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRACTIONATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; PANAX; PLANT ROOT; SOLUBILITY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CONCANAVALIN A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PANAX; PLANT ROOTS; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WATER;

PANAX GINSENG;

EID: 84861606825     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1574-x     Document Type: Article

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