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 …

Management of glycaemic response is perhaps the most critical part of antidiabetic therapy.
Hypoglycaemia is an avoidable complication caused by conventional drugs used in the …

Corn silk is well known and frequently used in traditional Chinese herbal medicines.
Polysaccharides of corn silk (POCS), which were extracted by distilled water and …

Components of silk including silk fibroin have long been used as anti-diabetic remedies in
oriental medicine. However, detailed mechanisms underlying these anti-diabetic effects …

The sericin protein from silk-processing waste added to the normal diet at 0.8%(g%) level
was administered orally to type 2 diabetic (T2D) mice to investigate its hypoglycaemic effects …

Corn silk is a well-known ingredient frequently used in traditional Chinese herbal medicines.
This study was designed to evaluate the anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant and anti-hyperlipidemic …

This study aimed to investigate the physicochemical properties and antidiabetic effects of a
polysaccharide obtained from corn silk (PCS2). PCS2 was isolated and the physicochemical …

The hypothesis for the research is that hydrolyzed silk protein has an antidiabetic effect by
reducing plasma glucose levels. To investigate this potential antidiabetic activity of …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Corn silk or the stigma of Zea mays L. has traditionally
been used in weight loss stimulation and treatment of cystitis, urinary infections and obesity …

In the present study, the physicochemical properties of polysaccharides from corn silk (CSP)
with different molecular weights were characterized and their inhibitory actions against α …