Q'SAI, Yamaguchi Prefectural University Discover that Kale Juice Helps Inhibit Immune Abnormality Associated with Passive Smoking.Tokyo, Japan, May 26, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Q'SAI, a leading Japanese kale kale, borecole (bôr`kōl), and collards, common names for nonheading, hardy types of cabbage (var. juice manufacturer, has announced the results of its recent research on a deep yellow vegetable, kale. In collaboration with Yamaguchi Prefectural University, the company has discovered that kale juice has a property to suppress the immune abnormality associated with passive smoking. In mice experiments, the two partners compared and analyzed how the intake of feed added with kale juice affected the conditions of mice which were exposed to passive smoking. The results showed that the levels of blood serum Blood serum A component of blood. Mentioned in: Bites and Stings blood serum the residual fluid of blood after clotting has occurred. It is plasma after the fibrinogen has been removed. nicotine, alveolar macrophage alveolar macrophage n. A vigorously phagocytic macrophage on the epithelial surface of lung alveoli that ingests carbon and other inhaled particulate matter. Also called coniophage, dust cell. , hexanoyl-lysine and spleen lymphocytes were kept low in the group fed with the kale-added feed. Details of these findings were presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nutrition and Food Science on May 20. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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