Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
NCBI PubMed ID: 10815005Publication DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1573(200005)14:3<153::aid-ptr666>3.0.co;2-jJournal NLM ID: 8904486Publisher: Chichester: Wiley
Institutions: Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Central Research Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan, Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Nihon University, Chiba, Japan
This paper reviews the effects of thallophytic glucans on rodent cognitive performance modelled by a combination of behavioural and electrophysiological approaches. Glucans were isolated from thallophytic plants, based on prescriptions used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. In parallel with the already described enhancement of hippocampal synaptic plasticity by disaccharides, polysaccharides isolated from lichens Flavoparmelia caperata and Cetrariella islandica, enhanced hippocampal plasticity and behavioural performance in rats.
isolichenan, PC-2, Cetrariella islandica, senile dementia, learning behaviour, short-term potentiation, long-term potentiation
Structure type: homopolymer
Location inside paper: p. 154, Table 1
Trivial name: pustulan, β-1,6-glucan, β-1,6-D-glucan, β(1-6)-D-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, pustulan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, β-(1,6)-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, lasiodiplodan, pustulan, β-1,6-glucan, β-(1,6)-glucan, pustulan, β-(1→6)-glucan PCPS, water-soluble glucan (PS-I)
Compound class: EPS, O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, glycoprotein, glucan, polysaccharide, cell wall glucoprotein
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_135614,IEDB_141806,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_241101,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Related record ID(s): 67951, 67952, 67954
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 87270,
87266Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G26777BZ, GlycomeDB:
863, CCSD:
50854, CBank-STR:4234
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