Ginseng treatment enhances bacterial clearance and decreases lung pathology in athymic rats with chronic P. aeruginosa pneumonia

APMIS

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 438-444

  Song, Zhi Jun ^a,b   Johansen, Helle Krogh ^a   Faber, Viggo ^a   Høiby, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Athymic rats; Cystic fibrosis; Ginseng; P. aeruginosa; Th1 like response

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; GINSENG; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030740081     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1997.tb00591.x     Document Type: Article

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