Two mushrooms, Grifola frondosa and Ganoderma lucidum, can stimulate cytokine gene expression and proliferation in human T lymphocytes

International Journal of Immunotherapy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-22

  Mao, T ^a   Van De Water, J ^a   Keen, C L ^a   Stern, J S ^a   Hackman, R ^a   Gershwin, M E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; THYMIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPOTENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MITOGENESIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MUSHROOM; NORMAL HUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

GANODERMA LUCIDUM; GRIFOLA FRONDOSA;

EID: 0032817129     PISSN: 02559625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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