Toxic proteins from European mistletoe (Vicum album L.): Increase of intracellular IL-4 but decrease of IFN-γ in apoptotic cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3 A, 2000, Pages 1673-1678

  Stein, Gerburg M ^a   Pfüller, Uwe ^a   Schietzel, Michael ^a   Büssing, Arndt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell death; Interleukin 4; Mistletoe; Mistletoe lectin; Necrosis; Viscotoxin; Viscum album

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM IONOPHORE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CELL MARKER; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; MONENSIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN BCL 2; TOXIN; VISCUM ALBUM LECTIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

APOPTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; MISTLETOE; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLASMACYTOMA; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0343962160     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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