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Antitumour activities of lichen polysaccharides

Antitumor-Wirkung einiger Polysaccharide aus Flechten

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Zusammenfassung

Einige Polysaccharide, die aus Flechten isoliert wurden, hemmen das Wachstum des Sarkoms-180 in Mäusen und verursachen in vielen Fällen vollständige Regression der Tumoren.

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Some polysaccharides isolated from lichens significantly inhibited the growth of implanted sarcoma-180 in mice and caused complete tumour regression in many cases.

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  1. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo

    S. Shibata, Y. Nishikawa & M. Tanaka

  2. National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo

    F. Fukuoka & M. Nakanishi

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  1. S. Shibata
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We express our deep thanks to Dr. W. Nakahara, the director of the National Cancer Center Research Institute, for his kind advice, Prof. D. Mizuno for the test against Ehrlich tumour, Prof. B. Lindberg and Prof. S. Peat for the samples of lichen polysaccharides, and to Dr. S. Kurokawa for his kind co-operation in lichenology. We are indebted to Mr. T. Komiya, Mr. L. Xavier Filho and Miss M. Ai for their co-operations in experiments. Thanks are also due to Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan for grant.

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Shibata, S., Nishikawa, Y., Tanaka, M. et al. Antitumour activities of lichen polysaccharides. Z Krebs-forsch 71, 102–104 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00524509

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