• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• v.23 no.1 s.53
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• pp.8-12
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• 1999

Acidic polysaccharide of Korean red ginseng (AcPS) was subjected to alcohol-intoxicated rats to check the effects on the growth factors and lipid metabolism. Administration of AcPS showed prevent effects on the body weight, the increased contents of total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and neutral glyceride in the serum and total lipid, total cholesterol and neutral glyceride in the liver of alcohol intoxicated rats were significantly normalized. And all of the effects were proportionaly increased with the duration of treatments.