 Pectins
"Pectins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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High molecular weight polysaccharides present in the cell walls of all plants. Pectins cement cell walls together. They are used as emulsifiers and stabilizers in the food industry. They have been tried for a variety of therapeutic uses including as antidiarrheals, where they are now generally considered ineffective, and in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia.
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D010368
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.738 D09.698.670 D20.215.784.500.618
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| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pectins" by people in Profiles.
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Del Mundo JT, Rongpipi S, Yang H, Ye D, Kiemle SN, Moffitt SL, Troxel CL, Toney MF, Zhu C, Kubicki JD, Cosgrove DJ, Gomez EW, Gomez ED. Grazing-incidence diffraction reveals cellulose and pectin organization in hydrated plant primary cell wall. Sci Rep. 2023 04 03; 13(1):5421.
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Sanders LM, Henderson CE, Hong MY, Barhoumi R, Burghardt RC, Wang N, Spinka CM, Carroll RJ, Turner ND, Chapkin RS, Lupton JR. An increase in reactive oxygen species by dietary fish oil coupled with the attenuation of antioxidant defenses by dietary pectin enhances rat colonocyte apoptosis. J Nutr. 2004 Dec; 134(12):3233-8.
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