Intestinal Peyer's patch-immunomodulating glucomannans from rhizomes of Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge

Immunomodulating glucomannans against immunocompetent cells of intestinal Peyer's patches were isolated from rhizomes of Anemarrhena asphgodeloides, and shown to possess characteristic carbohydrate sequences comprising β-d-Man and β-d-Glc, which are not in the inactive konjac glucomannan.