Component

Plasma nattokinase-immunoreactive material

What a polyclonal anti-nattokinase ELISA detects in human serum. It may be intact enzyme, fragments, complexes or cross-reactive material; the assay does not distinguish them and no catalytic activity was measured.

2 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.

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What it does

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What it acts on

  1. A polyclonal ELISA signal does not by itself distinguish intact catalytically active nattokinase from fragments, complexes or cross-reactive material.

    Experimental context and source evidence
    duration
    Not stated here
    evidence_access
    Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
    experimental_model
    Human
    exposure
    Anti-nattokinase polyclonal capture ELISA
    limitations
    Recorded as an assay-scope limit, not as a negative finding. No study in the retrieved evidence immunocaptured the material and then measured catalytic activity on a substrate.
    organism
    Human
    plain_language
    A polyclonal ELISA signal does not by itself distinguish intact catalytically active nattokinase from fragments, complexes or cross-reactive material.
    primary_references
    A pilot study on the serum pharmacokinetics of nattokinase in humans following a single, oral, daily dose. (2013) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23709455/
    route
    In vivo, oral
    tissue
    Serum

    Nattokinase: what the purified enzyme cleaves, what survives being eaten, and the gap between the two (2026-09-23) · lines 829–829

    Original AI-assisted curation built from a supplied entity-first document of 105 entities and 129 claims. Every reference in that document was resolved against live PubMed with its abstract read and its DOI cross-checked on 2026-09-23, and the EFSA novel-food opinion was retrieved and read in full. That check corrected two PMIDs that pointed at unrelated papers, two DOIs, and two papers recorded as carrying no erratum that do carry one; it also reversed three findings the supplied document had stated backwards. Two papers carry a published correction, recorded as such and not as a retraction. Three sources are not indexed in PubMed and are cited by what they have. Laboratory lineages are recorded, so the four papers from one group, the three from another and the two readings of a single applicant dossier cannot be counted as separate lines of support. Study-specific doses, units, populations and limitations retained; activity units are never converted between systems. Not publisher full text. · supports · Human · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft

    A polyclonal ELISA signal does not by itself distinguish intact catalytically active nattokinase from fragments, complexes or cross-reactive material.
    Complete structured claim and evidence

What acts on it

  1. A single 2,000 FU oral NSK-SD dose produced anti-nattokinase immunoreactivity in serum that rose significantly from baseline between 2 and 24 h and peaked at about 13.3 +/- 2.5 h.

    Experimental context and source evidence
    duration
    Single dose, sampling to 48 h
    evidence_access
    Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
    experimental_model
    Human (11 healthy adults, 5 male and 6 female, ages 21-65)
    exposure
    NSK-SD softgel, 2,000 FU, about 100 mg
    limitations
    No control group and a non-validated polyclonal rabbit anti-nattokinase capture ELISA. EFSA reviewed this study and noted the same limitations, adding that it did not assess the biological activity of nattokinase in blood. The authors themselves recommend that future work look separately for intact enzyme and for bioactive peptides.
    organism
    Human (11 healthy adults, 5 male and 6 female, ages 21-65)
    plain_language
    A single 2,000 FU oral NSK-SD dose produced anti-nattokinase immunoreactivity in serum that rose significantly from baseline between 2 and 24 h and peaked at about 13.3 +/- 2.5 h.
    primary_references
    A pilot study on the serum pharmacokinetics of nattokinase in humans following a single, oral, daily dose. (2013) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23709455/
    route
    In vivo, oral
    tissue
    Serum

    Nattokinase: what the purified enzyme cleaves, what survives being eaten, and the gap between the two (2026-09-23) · lines 818–818

    Original AI-assisted curation built from a supplied entity-first document of 105 entities and 129 claims. Every reference in that document was resolved against live PubMed with its abstract read and its DOI cross-checked on 2026-09-23, and the EFSA novel-food opinion was retrieved and read in full. That check corrected two PMIDs that pointed at unrelated papers, two DOIs, and two papers recorded as carrying no erratum that do carry one; it also reversed three findings the supplied document had stated backwards. Two papers carry a published correction, recorded as such and not as a retraction. Three sources are not indexed in PubMed and are cited by what they have. Laboratory lineages are recorded, so the four papers from one group, the three from another and the two readings of a single applicant dossier cannot be counted as separate lines of support. Study-specific doses, units, populations and limitations retained; activity units are never converted between systems. Not publisher full text. · supports · Human (11 healthy adults, 5 male and 6 female, ages 21-65) · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft

    A single 2,000 FU oral NSK-SD dose produced anti-nattokinase immunoreactivity in serum that rose significantly from baseline between 2 and 24 h and peaked at about 13.3 +/- 2.5 h.
    Complete structured claim and evidence

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