Recent advances in tea polysaccharides: Extraction, purification, physicochemical characterization and bioactivities

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 153, Issue , 2016, Pages 663-678

  Chen, Guijie ^a   Yuan, Qingxia ^a   Saeeduddin, Muhammad ^a   Ou, Shiyi ^b   Zeng, Xiaoxiong ^a   Ye, Hong ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioactivity; Extraction; Future perspectives; Purification; Structure; Tea polysaccharide

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; PURIFICATION; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TEA POLYPHENOLS; TEA POLYSACCHARIDES;

BIOACTIVITY;

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CHEMISTRY; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TEA;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; TEA;

EID: 84981263392     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.08.022     Document Type: Review

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