Update on the immunomodulating activities of glucans

Springer Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1985, Pages 387-400

  Di Luzio, Nicholas R ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GLUCAN; KRESTIN; LENTINAN; SCHIZOPHYLLAN;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; BONE; BONE MARROW; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANIMAL; BONE MARROW; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GLUCANS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0022398095     PISSN: 03444325     EISSN: 14322196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01857392     Document Type: Article

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