Together with chitin, the β-glucans are components of mycetes' cell walls. A high level of
biological efficiency has been found in β-glucans, especially β-1, 3-D-glucans and β-1, 6-D …

Recent studies have shown that naturally occurring substances found in the food of the daily
human diet are important for preventing chronic non-communicable diseases. One of them …

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of three or more metabolic disorders including insulin
resistance, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. Obesity has become the epidemic of the twenty-first …

This study examined the effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 43121 (LAB) on
cholesterol metabolism in hypercholesterolemia-induced rats. Four treatment groups of rats …

Background: Probiotic bacteria have been associated with a reduction in cardiovascular
disease risk, a leading cause of death and disability. Objectives: The aim of this study was to …

Abstract The 3T3-L1 cell line is a well-established and commonly used in vitro model to
assess adipocyte differentiation. Over the course of several days, confluent 3T3-L1 cells can …

Transplanting stem cells differentiated towards a cardiac lineage can regenerate cardiac
muscle tissues to treat myocardial infarction. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that …

In this study, to evaluate the anti‐obesity effects of fermented red ginseng (FG), levan (L),
and their combination (FGL), we investigated their effects on the weights of body, liver and …

The apoptotic effect of bacteria-derived β-glucan was investigated in human colon cancer
cells SNU-C4 using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick end …

Abstract β-glucans, the class of biological response modifier has unceasing attention, not
only for its immune stimulating but also for its role as prebiotics, modulator of physiological …