The herbal medicine Unkei-to stimulates cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant production in the pituitary folliculo-stellate-like cell line (TtT/GF)

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 249-255

  Koike, Koji ^a   Zhang, Zhen X ^b   Sakamoto, Yoshiki ^b   Jikihara, Hiroaki ^b   Masuhara, Kanji ^b   Murakami, Kouichf ^a   Miyake, Akira ^b   Inoue, Masaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary gland; Cytokine induced neutrophil chemoattractant; Folliculo stellate cell; Herbal medicine; Unkei to

Indexed keywords

BU ZHONG YI QI TANG; CYTOKINE INDUCED NEUTROPHIL CHEMOATTRACTANT; MESSENGER RNA; SHI QUAN DA BU TANG; TOKISHAKUYAKU SAN; UNKEI TO;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 0031929567     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1998.tb00361.x     Document Type: Article

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