Affiliations: Department of Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of
Agriculture, Yamagata University, Tsuruoka-shi, Yamagata 997-8555, Japan.
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Abstract: The preventive effects of the major boysenberry anthocyanins (BoAnt)
on liver injury, were determined in rats with liver injury induced by
galactosamine (GalN). Increases in plasma AST and ALT activities, which were
all induced by the injection of GalN, were relieved by the ingestion of BoAnt,
suggesting that BoAnt is a food component available to prevent liver
injury.
Keywords: boysenberry, anthocyanin, liver injury
Journal: BioFactors, vol. 21, no. 1-4, pp. 259-261, 2004
