Polygonum tinctorium extract suppresses nitric oxide production by activated macrophages through inhibiting inducible nitric oxide synthase expression

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 141-150

  Ishihara, Tatsuya ^a   Okura, Takanori ^a   Kohno, Keizo ^a   Tanimoto, Tadao ^a   Ikegami, Hakuo ^a   Kurimoto, Masashi ^a  

^a HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inducible NO synthase; Macrophage; Nitric oxide; Polygonum tinctorium

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYGONUM TINCTORIUM EXTRACT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PLANT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; ISOENZYMES; JAPAN; MACROPHAGES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034284566     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(00)00249-X     Document Type: Article

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