Influence of polysaccharides from Viscum album L. on human lymphocytes, monocytes and granulocytes in vitro

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5 B, 1999, Pages 3907-3914

  Stein, Gerburg Maria ^a   Edlund, Ute ^b   Pfüller, Uwe ^a   Büssing, Arndt ^a   Schietzel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Carl Gustav Carus Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Interaction; Lectin; PBMC; Polysaccharides; Proliferation; Viscum album L.

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; POLYSACCHARIDE; RHODAMINE 123;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONOCYTE; OXIDATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISCUM ALBUM;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GALACTANS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-6; LECTINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MISTLETOE; MONOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; RESPIRATORY BURST; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

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