Epigallocatechin gallate, a potential immunomodulatory agent of tea components, diminishes cigarette smoke condensate-induced suppression of anti-Legionella pneumophila activity and cytokine responses of alveolar macrophages

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 864-871

  Matsunaga, Kazuto ^a   Klein, Thomas W ^a   Friedman, Herman ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CATECHIN; CYTOKINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; SECRETION; SMOKE; TOBACCO;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CATECHIN; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SMOKE; TOBACCO;

EID: 0036068346     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.4.864-871.2002     Document Type: Article

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