Effect of Shimotsu-to (a Kampo medicine, Si-Wu-Tang) and its constituents on triphasic skin reaction in passively sensitized mice

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 219-228

  Tahara, Eiichi ^a,b   Satoh, Taku ^a   Toriizuka, Kazuo ^c   Nagai, Hiroichi ^d   Nunome, Shinyu ^e   Shimada, Yutaka ^b   Itoh, Takashi ^b   Terasawa, Katsutoshi ^b   Saiki, Ikuo ^a  

^a Inst Nat Med   (Japan)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Tsumura Ctrl Labs Tsumura C   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allergic inflammation; Cnidii Rhizoma; Cnidilide; Scratching; Shimotsu to; Triphasic skin reaction

Indexed keywords

1 FLUORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; 2,4 DINITROPHENOL; CHINESE DRUG; CNIDILIDE; KAMPO; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRURITUS; SENSITIZATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DINITROFLUOROBENZENE; DINITROPHENOLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; EAR; EDEMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PASSIVE CUTANEOUS ANAPHYLAXIS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032717229     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(99)00099-9     Document Type: Article

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