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The first finding of biological activities of polysaccharides against cancer shall be seen in the article which reported an antitumor activity of yeast extracts (De Backer, 1987), and the activity was also observed in experimental model using transplantable and spontaneous malignant tumors in mice1). These findings have been followed by successive researches on cell wall components definded as zymosan2), and the effective compounds in zymosan was found as glucans3).
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Kaneko, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Uryu, T. (1990). Biological Actions of Polysaccharides and Those Derivatives Against Cancer and AIDS. In: Masihi, K.N., Lange, W. (eds) Immunotherapeutic Prospects of Infectious Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76120-1_13
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