Ginseng treatment reduces bacterial load and lung pathology in chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in rats

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 961-964

  Song, Zhijun ^a   Johansen, Helle Krogh ^a   Faber, Viggo ^a   Moser, Claus ^a   Kharazmi, Arsalan ^a   Rygaard, Jørgen ^b   Høiby, Niels ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Kommunehospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GINSENG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030903254     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.5.961     Document Type: Article

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