Augmentation of natural killer cell activity in vivo against tumour cells by some wild plants from Jordan

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-113

  Abuharfeil, N M ^a   Salim, Maher ^b   Von Kleist, S ^c  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b AL AHLIYYA AMMAN UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Jordanian plants; Natural Killer cell

Indexed keywords

GARLIC EXTRACT; NIGELLA SATIVUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; JORDAN; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; JORDAN; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM SATIVUM; JORDANIA; NIGELLA; ONOPORDUM ACANTHIUM; SATIVUM;

EID: 0035066611     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.692     Document Type: Article

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