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Berit Smestad Paulsen

Berit Smestad Paulsen

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Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
8949
World Ranking
10419
National Ranking
30

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
10322
World Ranking
10478
National Ranking
47

Overview

Berit Smestad Paulsen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has contributed extensively to research within Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have a particular focus on Plant Science, Food Science, Pharmacology, Aquatic Science, and Molecular Biology as subfields of study.

Their published work centers primarily on topics related to polysaccharides and plant cell walls, polysaccharides composition and applications, seaweed-derived bioactive compounds, fungal biology and applications, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, phytochemical studies and bioactivities, and carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Berit Smestad Paulsen include Yuanfeng Zou, Lixia Li, Bin Feng, Frode Rise, and Chao Huang.

Research work appears regularly in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
  • Carbohydrate Polymers
  • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
  • Trends in Food Science & Technology
  • Food & Function

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Berit Smestad Paulsen are:

  • Polysaccharides from Aconitum carmichaelii leaves: Structure, immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory activities, 2022, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Structural features of pectic polysaccharides from stems of two species of Radix Codonopsis and their antioxidant activities, 2020, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
  • Prospects of Codonopsis pilosula polysaccharides: Structural features and bioactivities diversity, 2020, Trends in Food Science & Technology
  • Salvia miltiorrhiza polysaccharide and its related metabolite 5-methoxyindole-3-carboxaldehyde ameliorate experimental colitis by regulating Nrf2/Keap1 signaling pathway, 2023, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • New pectic polysaccharides from Codonopsis pilosula and Codonopsis tangshen: structural characterization and cellular antioxidant activities, 2021, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Best Publications

  • An ethnopharmacological survey of plants used for wound healing in Dogonland, Mali, West Africa.

    Kari Inngjerdingen;Cecilie Sogn Nergård;Drissa Diallo;Pakuy Pierre Mounkoro

  • Extracellular carbohydrate polymers from five desert soil algae with different cohesion in the stabilization of fine sand grain

    Chunxiang Hu;Yongding Liu;Berit Smestad Paulsen;Dirk Petersen

  • Ethnopharmacological survey of different uses of seven medicinal plants from Mali, (West Africa) in the regions Doila, Kolokani and Siby

    Adiaratou Togola;Drissa Diallo;Seydou Dembélé;Hilde Barsett

  • Bioactive pectic polysaccharides

    Berit Smestad Paulsen;Hilde Barsett

  • Interaction Between Human Complement and a Pectin Type Polysaccharide Fraction, PMII, from the Leaves of Plantago major L.

    T. E. Michaelsen;A. Gilje;A. B. Samuelsen;K. Høgåsen

  • An Ethnobotanical Survey of Herbal Drugs of Gourma District, Mali

    Drissa Diallo;Britt Hveem;Mohamed Ag Mahmoud;Gunnvor Berge

  • Determination of some toxic and essential metal ions in medicinal and edible plants from Mali.

    Ababacar Maiga;Drissa Diallo;Ragnar Bye;Berit Smestad Paulsen

  • Plant Polysaccharides with Immunostimulatory Activities

    Berit Smestad Paulsen

  • Studies on polysaccharides from three edible species of Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) with different colony morphologies: Comparison of monosaccharide compositions and viscosities of polysaccharides from field colonies and suspension cultures

    Zebo Huang;Yongding Liu;Berit Smestad Paulsen;Dag Klaveness

  • Use of herbal drugs during pregnancy among 600 Norwegian women in relation to concurrent use of conventional drugs and pregnancy outcome.

    Hedvig Nordeng;Karen Bayne;Gro Cecilie Havnen;Berit Smestad Paulsen

  • Characterization of a biologically active pectin from Plantago major L.

    Anne Berit Samuelsen;Berit Smestad Paulsen;Jens Kristian Wold;Hanako Otsuka

  • Medicinal use of Cochlospermum tinctorium in Mali Anti-ulcer-, radical scavenging- and immunomodulating activities of polymers in the aqueous extract of the roots.

    Cecilie Sogn Nergard;Drissa Diallo;Kari Inngjerdingen;Terje Einar Michaelsen

  • Structural and immunological studies of a pectin and a pectic arabinogalactan from Vernonia kotschyana Sch. Bip. ex Walp. (Asteraceae).

    Cecilie Sogn Nergard;Tsukasa Matsumoto;Marit Inngjerdingen;Kari Inngjerdingen

  • Structural features of two heteroxylan polysaccharide fractions from wheat bran with anti-complementary and antioxidant activities.

    Zdenka Hromádková;Berit Smestad Paulsen;Martin Polovka;Zuzana Košťálová

  • Ethnopharmacological survey of six medicinal plants from Mali, West-Africa

    Tom Erik Grønhaug;Silje Glæserud;Mona Skogsrud;Ngolo Ballo

  • Water-soluble polysaccharides with pharmaceutical importance from Durian rinds (Durio zibethinus Murr.): isolation, fractionation, characterisation and bioactivity

    Sanya Hokputsa;Waraporn Gerddit;Sunanta Pongsamart;Kari Inngjerdingen

  • Bioactive pectic polysaccharides from Glinus oppositifolius (L.) Aug. DC., a Malian medicinal plant, isolation and partial characterization.

    Kari Tvete Inngjerdingen;Sylvi C. Debes;Marit Inngjerdingen;Sanya Hokputsa

  • Isolation and partial characterization of biologically active polysaccharides from Plantago major L.

    Anne Berit Samuelsen;Berit Smestad Paulsen;Jens Kristian Wold;Hanako Otsuka

  • Biologically active polysaccharides as possible lead compounds

    Berit Smestad Paulsen

  • Isolation, partial characterisation and immunomodulating activities of polysaccharides from Vernonia kotschyana Sch. Bip. ex Walp

    Cecilie Sogn Nergard;Drissa Diallo;Terje Einar Michaelsen;Karl Egil Malterud

  • Wound Healing Plants in Mali, the Bamako Region. An Ethnobotanical Survey and Complement Fixation of Water Extracts from Selected Plants

    Drissa Diallo;Cecilie Sogn;Fatoumata B. Samaké;Berit Smestad Paulsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Terje E. Michaelsen
Terje E. Michaelsen University of Oslo
Haruki Yamada
Haruki Yamada Kitasato University
Stephen E. Harding
Stephen E. Harding University of Nottingham
Frode Rise
Frode Rise University of Oslo
Bent O. Petersen
Bent O. Petersen University of Copenhagen
Thomas Heinze
Thomas Heinze Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jens Ø. Duus
Jens Ø. Duus Technical University of Denmark
Jane Thomas-Oates
Jane Thomas-Oates University of York
Sebastian Meier
Sebastian Meier Technical University of Denmark
Dave E. Dunstan
Dave E. Dunstan University of Melbourne

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