Treatment of H. pylori infected mice with antioxidant astaxanthin reduces gastric inflammation, bacterial load and modulates cytokine release by splenocytes

Immunology Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 185-189

  Bennedsen, Mads ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Willén, Roger ^c   Wadström, Torkel ^b   Andersen, Leif Percival ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Astaxanthin; Balb cA mice; Cytokines; Helicobacter pylori; IL 4; Interferon; T cell; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASTAXANTHIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HELPER CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; CYTOKINES; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 0033990962     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2478(99)00145-5     Document Type: Article

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