Isolation, purification, and characterization of immunosuppressive compounds from tripterygium: Triptolide and tripdiolide

International Journal of Immunopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 351-356

  Gu, Wen Zhen ^a   Chen, Randal ^a   Brandwein, Sydney ^a   McAlpine, James ^a   Burres, Neal ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

immunosuppression; tripterygium; triptolide

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TRIPDIOLID; TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII EXTRACT; TRIPTOLIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG ANALYSIS; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DITERPENES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, MASS; SPLEEN;

EID: 0029008895     PISSN: 01920561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0192-0561(95)00022-T     Document Type: Article

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