[Effects of pure and crude Lycium barbarum polysaccharides on immunopharmacology]

Zhong Yao Cai. 1999 May;22(5):246-9.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Effects of pure Lycium barbarum polysaccharides (LBP-X) on immunological activity were compared with crude LBP. The pure LBP-X were divided into different doses, lower doses (5-20 mg/kg.d) of pure LBP-X showed a remarkable effect on immunological enhancement. Especially, LBP-X 10 mg/kg.d had a highly significance difference compared with crude LBP on immune indices in mice. Lycium barbarum polysaccharides have the best pharmacological effect when it was the best dose.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / pharmacology*
  • Animals
  • Female
  • Hemolysin Proteins / blood
  • Hypersensitivity, Delayed / immunology*
  • Lycium* / chemistry
  • Lymphocyte Activation / drug effects
  • Macrophages, Peritoneal / immunology
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Organ Size / drug effects
  • Phagocytosis / drug effects
  • Plants, Medicinal* / chemistry
  • Polysaccharides / isolation & purification
  • Polysaccharides / pharmacology*
  • Rosette Formation
  • Spleen / anatomy & histology
  • Thymus Gland / anatomy & histology

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • Hemolysin Proteins
  • Polysaccharides