Effect of cocoa flavanols and their related oligomers on the secretion of interleukin-5 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-22

  Mao, T K ^a   Van De Water, J ^a   Keen, C L ^a   Schmitz, H H ^b   Gershwin, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TETRAMER; ANTIOXIDANT; BIFLAVONOID; CATECHIN; FLAVONOID; PROANTHOCYANIDIN; PROCYANIDIN;

ARTICLE; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENTAL CARIES; DIETARY INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; SECRETION;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIFLAVONOIDS; CACAO; CATECHIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; FLAVONOLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PROANTHOCYANIDINS;

EID: 0036011227     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109662002753723188     Document Type: Article

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