Abstract: The invention herein is related to the use of Lactobacillus reuteri strains as immune enhancing agents, methods of improving immune-function in mammals using Lactobacillus reuteri strains in products containing cells of such strains and the products as such. These strains exhibit good toxin binding and neutralizing effect, and exhibit good CD4+ cell recruitment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to extract and fraction of cacao bean and cacao bean husk, which inhibit the suppression of GJIC (gap junctional intercellular communication) and inhibit DNA synthesis of cancer cell, pathological phenomena occurring during promotion and progression stages of carcinogenesis.

Abstract: Disclosed is theobromine with an anti-carcinogenic activity which inhibits the suppression of GJIC (gap junctional intercellular communication), a pathological phenomenon occurring during development of various kinds of cancers including liver cancer, as well as DNA synthesis of cancer cells thereby inhibiting proliferation of liver, gastric and colon cancer cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cacao extract including dietary fiber, more specifically cacao extract including dietary fiber useful for the treatment of diabetes obtained as a residue of solvent extraction of the cacao bean husk (CBH) conventionally wasted after using only cacao bean (CB), which has the following characteristics:

Abstract: The present invention relates to extract and fraction of cacao bean and cacao bean husk, which inhibit the suppression of GJIC (gap junctional intercellular communication) and inhibit DNA synthesis of cancer cell, pathological phenomena occurring during promotion and progression stages of carcinogenesis.

Abstract: Disclosed is theobromine with an anti-carcinogenic activity which inhibits the suppression of GJIC (gap junctional intercellular communication), a pathological phenomenon occurring during development of various kinds of cancers including liver cancer, as well as DNA synthesis of cancer cells thereby inhibiting proliferation of liver, gastric and colon cancer cells.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for manufacturing a fraction of cacao bean husk having an inhibitory activity against glucosyltransferase in the prevention of tooth decay and more particularly, to the process for manufacturing a fraction of cacao bean husk having more potent activity against glucosyltransferase in the prevention of tooth decay, while providing an economically feasible recovery process designed to treat enormous wastes of cacao bean husk, wherein it comprises the steps in which:an extract of cacao bean husk, which has already proven to exhibit an excellent inhibitory activity against glucosyltransferase, is formed from cacao bean husk; and,the extract is again added to an adsorption resin and fractioned by 50% thanol aqueous solution.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process of manufacturing gum having various colors and patterns and more particularly, a process of manufacturing the gum product representing fantastic visual effects. In the common process of manufacturing a gum, separately prepared soft gum pieces having various colors and patterns are charged into a hopper, together with powdered sugar and then, by dispersing and rolling the gum pieces on a hard gum sheet, gum pieces are freely adhered to the gum sheet where each part has the different colors and patterns.

Abstract: The particular strain of Klebsiella oxytoca No. 19-1 has been isolated from soil which produces a cyclomaltoglucanotransferase enzyme capable of converting starch to .alpha.-cyclodextrin in very high proportion, nearly close to 100 percent, rather than another types of cyclodextrins.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing high amounts of Monascus pigment by cultivating a Monascus species in a particularly prepared media to which rice powder and peptone are added as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to Monascus anka 732Y3 (KCCM 10014 induced from Monascus anka ATCC 16360 (=IFO 4478, KFCC 11832), and more particularly is concerned with Monascus anka 732Y3 (KCCM 10014), which was induced from Monascus anka ATCC 16360 (=IFO 4478, KFCC 11832) by ultra-violet light irradiation and produces higher amounts of pigments than Monascus anka ATCC 16360.