The front cover features artwork by Jian-Ping Luo from the University of Hefei. His paper with his colleagues investigates the preventive effects of daily supplementation with an homogeneous polysaccharide (DHP) purified from D. huoshanense on ethanol-induced subacute liver injury in mice and its potential mechanisms in liver protection by a proteomic approach.
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The effects of daily supplementation of Dendrobium huoshanense polysaccharide on ethanol-induced subacute liver injury in mice by proteomic analysis
Xiao-Yu Wang, Jian-Ping Luo, Rui Chen, Xue-Qiang Zha and He Wang
Food Funct., 2014, 5, 2020-2035
DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60629E
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