Aim To assess the impact of semi-refined carrageenan (E407a) on hydrophobic regions of phosphololipid bilayer in cell membranes of leukocytes collected from rats orally administered this food additive and white blood cells incubated with E407a.Methods Fluorescent probes (ortho-hydroxy derivatives of 2,5-diaryl-1,3-oxazole) were used to estimate the...

By Anton Tkachenko, Anatolii Onishchenko, Alexander Roshal, Oksana Nakonechna, Tetyana Chumachenko, Yevgen Posokhov