Immunomodulatory and Antitumor Actions of Medicinal Plant Tinospora cordifolia Are Mediated Through Activation of Tumor Associated Macrophages

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 145-162

  Singh, Nisha ^a   Singh, Sukh Mahendra ^a   Shrivastava, Pratima ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antigen presentation; Arginase activity; Cytotoxicity; Dalton's lymphoma; IL 1; Phagocytosis; RNI; Tinospora cordifolia; TNF; Tumor associated macrophages (TAM)

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DALTON LYMPHOMA; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1; REACTIVE NITROGEN INTERMEDIATE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA EXTRACT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOMA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ARGINASE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTONIC SOLUTIONS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOMA; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TINOSPORA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; TINOSPORA;

EID: 1942455396     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/IPH-120029952     Document Type: Article

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