Food & Function Blog

Issue 2 of Food & Function is now available to read online.

The front cover this month features work by Atsushi Kato and co-workers from Toyama, Japan. In their paper they report that a 50% aqueous EtOH extract of clove (Syzygium aromaticum) has potent inhibitory activity toward glycogen phosphorylase b and glucagon-stimulated glucose production in primary rat hepatocytes.

Read the article in full – it’s free to access for the next six weeks:
Effects of eugenol-reduced clove extract on glycogen phosphorylase b and the development of diabetes in db/db mice
Fujiko Sanae, Ogusa Kamiyama, Kyoko Ikeda-Obatake, Yasuhiko Higashi, Naoki Asano, Isao Adachi and Atsushi Kato
Food Funct., 2014, 5, 214-219, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60514K

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