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Daily oral administration of polysaccharides extracted from plaster clover plants increased physical endurance (as determined in swimming tests) and body weight in mice and rats, stimulated the recovery of hematopoiesis in rats with experimentally produced lead anemia, and boosted the immune response to rat erythrocytes in mice, causing pronounced changes in the erythrocytic and leukocytic series and particularly in immunocompetent organs such as the thymus and spleen.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 121, No. 6, pp. 661–663, June, 1996
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Podkolzin, A.A., Dontsov, V.I., Sychev, I.A. et al. Immunomodulating, antianemic, and adaptogenic effects of polysaccharides from plaster clover (Melilotus officinalis). Bull Exp Biol Med 121, 597–599 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447128
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447128