In this study, the beneficial effects of a homogalacturonan(HG)-type pectic polysaccharide from Ficus pumila L. fruits (FPLP) in obese mice were investigated. The 17-week FPLP treatment effectively attenuated obesity, as mainly demonstrated by the reductions of body weight, serum total cholesterol
A water-soluble polysaccharide JS-MP-1 was isolated from Korean mulberry fruits Oddi (Morus alba L.). Sugar linkage analysis and NMR data confirmed that it is a rhamnogalacturonan type I (RG I) polymer carrying arabinan and arabinogalactan (AG II) side chains. JS-MP-1 reduced dose-dependently the
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