Clinical immunology and traditional herbal medicines

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 337-338

  Plaeger, Susan F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AYURVEDIC DRUG; DEXAMETHASONE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; JA WAI SAN ZI TANG; KAMPO; MSSM 002; PLANT EXTRACT; SHI QUAN DA BU TANG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ASIA; ASTHMA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COIX; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; HERB; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MEDICINE, HERBAL; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL;

EID: 0037957245     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.3.337-338.2003     Document Type: Note

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