Suppression of inducible cyclooxygenase and inducible nitric oxide synthase by apigenin and related flavonoids in mouse macrophages

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1945-1952

  Liang, Yu Chih ^a   Huang, Ying Tang ^b   Tsai, Shu Huei ^a   Lin Shiau, Shoei Yn ^a   Chen, Chieh Fu ^c   Lin, Jen Kun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FLAVONOID; GENISTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; KAEMPFEROL; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAMOMILE; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FLAVONOIDS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 0032831286     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.10.1945     Document Type: Article

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