An insight into anti-inflammatory effects of natural polysaccharides

Inflammation is the first response of the body's immune system to injury, infection and stress. Chronic inflammation has close relationship with many diseases, such as arthritis, atherosclerosis and cancer. The traditional therapy strategy of inflammation mainly involves steroid and non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, both of which have increasingly prominent side-effects which cannot be ignored. Polysaccharides extracted from natural sources...