Immunity is largely divided into innate immunity and adaptive immunity. We conducted a study using HongJam extract to confirm its innate immunity-enhancing effect. Our data using Natural Killer (NK) cells, which play an important role in innate immunity, confirmed that HongJam extract promotes the proliferation of NK cells and also enhances the function of NK cells to attack and destroy cancer cells. (Grant No. PJ017024022023)

• Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam(Department of Biomedical Gerontology, Hallym University, Korea) Corresponding author
• Phan Trinh Yen Binh(Department of Biomedical Gerontology, Hallym University, Korea)
• Yoo Hee Kim(Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Korea)
• Young Ho Koh(Department of Biomedical Gerontology, Hallym University, Korea, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Korea)