Echinacea purpurea stimulates cellular immunity and anti-bacterial defence independently of the strain of mice

Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2003, Pages 3-5

  Bany, J ^a   Siwicki, A K ^b   Zdanowska, D ^a   Sokolnicka, I ^c   Skopinska Rozewska E ^c   Kowalczyk, M ^a  

^a MILITARY INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^c Dept of Lab Diagnostics/Immunology ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Chemiluminescence; Echinacea purpurea; Lymphoproliferation; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; FEEDING; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRANULOCYTE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIVER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ECHINACEA; GRANULOCYTES; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHINACEA PURPUREA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0141456395     PISSN: 15051773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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