By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- Investigators discuss new findings in Life Science Research - Carbohydrate Research. According to news reporting from Nanchang, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Pharmacotherapy using natural substances can be currently regarded as a very promising future alternative to conventional therapy. As biological macromolecules, polysaccharide together with protein and polynucleotide, are extremely important biomacromoleules which play important roles in the growth and development of living organism.”
Funders for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Jiangxi Province, China.
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Nanchang University, “Polysaccharide is important component of higher plants, membrane of the animal cell and the cell wall of microbes. It is also closely related to the physiological functions. Recently, increasing attention has been paid on polysaccharides as an important class of bioactive natural products. Numerous researches have demonstrated the bioactivities of natural polysaccharides, which lead to the application of polysaccharides in the treatment of disease. In this paper, the various aspects of the investigation results of the bioactivities of polysaccharides were summarized, including its diversity pharmacological applications, such as immunoregulatory, anti-tumor, anti-virus, antioxidation, and hypoglycemic activity, and their application of polysaccharides in the treatment of disease are also discussed.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “We hope this review can offer some theoretical basis and inspiration for the mechanism study of the bioactivity of polysaccharides.”
For more information on this research see: Biological activities and pharmaceutical applications of polysaccharide from natural resources: A review. Carbohydrate Polymers , 2018;183():91-101. Carbohydrate Polymers can be contacted at: Elsevier Sci Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, Oxon, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Carbohydrate Polymers - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/carbohydrate-polymers/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.H. Xie, Nanchang University, Sch Food Sci & Technol, Nanchang 330047, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include M.Y. Shen, Q.Q. Song and Y. Yu.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.12.009. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-02-20), Recent Studies from Nanchang University Add New Data to Carbohydrate Research (Biological activities and pharmaceutical applications of polysaccharide from natural resources: A review), Life Science Weekly, 3091, ISSN: 1552-2474, BUTTER® ID: 015171491
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