This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses how an anti-complement homogeneous polysaccharide from Houttuynia cordata ameliorates acute pneumonia with H1N1 and MRSA ...

Pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccines prevent pneumococcal disease in infants, but their efficacy against pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in adults 65 years of age or older is ...

This method has proven useful for isolated polysaccharide fractions, but for a cell wall, the polysaccharide mixture may result in overly complex chromatograms because of the generation of ...

Contrasting paradigms for polysaccharide use Detailed functional and molecular investigations of polysaccharide utilization have been undertaken for only a few species of anaerobic gut bacteria.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the chief cause of pneumonia in older adults, but it remains unclear whether use of the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine alters the overall risk of community-acquired ...

Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Pectin is a dietary soluble fiber found in the cell walls of fruits and vegetables ...

HealthDay News — For children with nutritional iron-deficiency anemia (IDA), ferrous sulfate is associated with a greater increase in hemoglobin concentration at 12 weeks compared with iron ...

Polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases have been developed that comprise chiral selectors immobilized on their support rather than being physically coated. These materials are completely ...

The sea cucumber has been found to naturally produce a sugary compound that inhibits an enzyme instrumental in facilitating cancer growth, according to a new study. The next step is to find a ...

Synthesis Chemists smash record for longest polysaccharide Automated synthesizer strings together 1,080 sugars in a single glycan by Bethany Halford ...

Materials Synthetic Polysaccharide Stabilizes Proteins Biochemistry: Polymer consisting of amide-linked glucose monomers outperforms a natural disaccharide in protecting enzyme during freeze ...