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The effects of corn silk on glycaemic metabolism

BACKGROUND: Corn silk contains proteins, vitamins, carbohydrates, Ca, K, Mg and Na salts, fixed and volatile oils, steroids such as sitosterol and stigmasterol, alkaloids, saponins, tannins, and flavonoids. Base on folk remedies, corn silk has been used as an oral antidiabetic agent in China for dec...

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Autores principales: Guo, Jianyou, Liu, Tongjun, Han, Linna, Liu, Yongmei
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-7075-6-47