Interaction of swainsonine with lymphoid and highly perfused tissues: A pharmacokinetics explanation for sustained immunomodulation

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6 D, 1997, Pages 4345-4346

  Bowen, Donnell ^a   Southerland, William M ^a   Bowen, Camille D ^a   Hughes, Doris E ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphoid tissue; Sustained immunomodulation; Swainsonine

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ALKALOID; SWAINSONINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL; THYMUS; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; DNA; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SPLEEN; SWAINSONINE; THYMUS GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRITIUM;

EID: 0031418950     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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