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Immune enhancement activities of silk lutein extract from Bombyx mori cocoons

Overview of attention for article published in Biological Research, April 2014
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Title
Immune enhancement activities of silk lutein extract from Bombyx mori cocoons
Published in
Biological Research, April 2014
DOI 10.1186/0717-6287-47-15
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Porkaew Promphet, Sirirat Bunarsa, Manote Sutheerawattananonda, Duangkamol Kunthalert

Abstract

Declining immune function poses an important clinical challenge worldwide and supplementation with natural products that possessing immune enhancing properties is a promising approach for preventing or delaying immune function decline. Cocoons from yellow silkworms are a significant source of lutein, and this unexplored silk extract could be a viable alternative source for dietary lutein. This study assessed immunomodulatory activities of the silk lutein extract. Female BALB/c mice orally received lutein, either as silk or marigold extracts (10 or 20 mg/kg daily), or vehicle only (1% tween 80 in PBS pH 7.4) for 4 weeks. Natural killer (NK) cell activity, specific antibody production, lymphocyte subpopulations, mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation, and cytokine production were examined.

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Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 18%
Student > Master 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Lecturer 2 7%
Student > Postgraduate 2 7%
Other 5 18%
Unknown 7 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 32%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 7%
Mathematics 1 4%
Chemical Engineering 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 10 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 April 2015.
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#17,286,645
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#326
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#146,198
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#3
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