Cytokine production in leukocyte cultures during therapy with Echinacea extract

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 441-445

  Elsasser Beile U ^a,c   Willenbacher, W ^a   Bartsch, H H ^a   Gallati, H ^b   Schulte Monting J ^a   Von Kleist, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Immunobiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

cytokine production; Echinacea complex; whole blood cell cultures

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINACEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEUKOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOGENS; NEOPLASMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 0029921946     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2825(1996)10:6<441::AID-JCLA22>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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