Original title: Beta-Glucans: What Applications? A General Overview
Authors: Vannucci, Luca ; Mishra, Rajbardhan ; Lukáč, Pavol ; Tenti, Paolo ; Rajsiglová, Lenka ; Větvička, V. ; Šíma, Petr
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: 14 th International Conference on Polysaccharides-Glycoscience, Praha (CZ), 20181107
Year: 2018
Language: eng
Abstract: Glucans are polysaccharides derived from various sources (e.g. mushrooms, algae, yeast, barley). They can target immune receptors, like Dectin-1 expressed on dendritic cells - antigen presenting cells. Otherwise, interest is rising for their use not only for modulation of immunity, but also of cholesterol levels, or as possible vaccine adjuvants, nanocarriers and functional food components. We will shortly review some aspects in human and veterinarian applications.
Keywords: antitumor immune-responses; gastrointestinal-tract; growth-performance
Host item entry: Proceedings Of The 14th International Conference On Polysaccharides-Glycoscience, ISBN 978-80-86238-80-7, ISSN 2336-6796

Institution: Institute of Microbiology AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0306149

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