Medroxyprogesterone acetate reduces the production of cytokines and serotonin involved in anorexia/ cachexia and emesis by peripheral blood mononuclear cells of cancer patients

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Mantovani, Giovanni ^a   MacCiò, Antonio ^a   Esu, Silvia ^a   Lai, Paola ^a   Santona, Maria C ^a   Massa, Elena ^a   Dessi, Daniela ^a   Melis, Gianbenedetto ^a   Del Gacco, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; SEROTONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANOREXIA; CACHEXIA; CANCER PATIENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

ANOREXIA; ANTIGENS, CD; CACHEXIA; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SEROTONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VOMITING;

EMESIS;

EID: 0031008844     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/bst025296s     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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2. Mantovani, G., Macciò;, A., Versace, R. et al. (1995) J. Mol. Med. 73,409-416