Kupffer cells play important roles in the metabolic degradation of a soluble anti-tumor (1 → 3)-β-D-glucan, SSG, in mice

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 93-100

  Suda, Masahiro ^a   Ohno, Naohito ^a   Hashimoto, Tomoe ^a   Koizumi, Kinuyo ^a   Adachi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yadomae, Toshiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

(1 3) Glucan; Gadolinium chloride; Kupffer cell; Macrophage blocker; Oxidative degradation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE; GLUCAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030248317     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-8244(96)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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