Effect of immunostim plus - A standardized fixed combination of Schizandra Chinensis with Eleutherococcus Senticosus extracts on granulocyte activity and tumour angiogenesis in mice

Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 489-492

  Siwicki, Andrzej Krzysztof ^a   Skopińska Rózewska, Ewa ^b   Nartowska, Jadwiga ^c   Małaczewska, Joanna ^a   Wójcik, Roman ^a   Sommer, Ewa ^b   Trapkowska, Sylwia ^a   Filewska, Małgorzata ^b   Skurzak, Henryk ^d  

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

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eleutherococcus senticosus; Granulocytes; Mice; Schizandra chinensis; Tumour angiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SCHIZANDRA CHINENSIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS; GRANULOCYTE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY BURST; SARCOMA CELL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 15744387900     PISSN: 00424870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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