β-Glucan in Allergies

What Is Beta Glucan ?

Mitochondrial Toxicity of Depleted Uranium: Protection by Beta-Glucan

Considerable evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to the toxicity of uranyl acetate (UA), a soluble salt of depleted uranium (DU). We examined the ability of the two antioxidants, beta-glucan and butylated hydroxyl toluene (BHT), to prevent UA-induced mitochondrial dysfunction using rat-isolated kidney mitochondria. Beta-glucan (150 nM) and BHT (20 nM) attenuated UA-indu...

Beta 1,3-Glucan Toxicology Studies

PMID: 3795299 [PubMed indexed for MEDLINE] Five groups of 12 male and 12 female rats each were fed diets containing 0, 0.06, 0.25, 1.00 and 4.00% PSL for a period of one month. Food consumption of PSL-fed groups did not differ from that of control. Urinalysis and autopsy findings were within normal in every group of rats treated. With 4.00% in the diet, body weight gain was significantly retard...

Mitochondrial Toxicity of Depleted Uranium: Protection by Beta-Glucan

Considerable evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to the toxicity of uranyl acetate (UA), a soluble salt of depleted uranium (DU). We examined the ability of the two antioxidants, beta-glucan and butylated hydroxyl toluene (BHT), to prevent UA-induced mitochondrial dysfunction using rat-isolated kidney mitochondria. Beta-glucan (150 nM) and BHT (20 nM) attenuated UA-indu...

Health from grain: oat beta-glucan

Lantmännen is a Swedish cooperative owned by 27,000 farmers. Research has always been regarded as important within the cooperative; therefore, Lantmännen has its own research foundation allowing for investment in both external and internal research. Oats are one food crop that has been studied because its components have possible health effects. It has been known since the nineteenth century th...