Prevention of surgery-induced suppression of granulocyte function by intravenous application of a fermented extract from Viscum album L. in breast cancer patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6 C, 2005, Pages 4753-4757

  Büssing, Arndt ^a   Bischof, Mechtild ^a   Hatzmann, Wolfgang ^c   Bartsch, Felix ^c   Soto Vera, Danyl ^d   Fronk, Eva Maria ^d   Gmeindl, Martin ^b   Stein, Gerburg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Herdecke Community Hospital   (Germany)

^c Marien Hospital Witten   (Germany)

^d Inst Oncological Immunological Res   (Germany)

Author keywords

Granulocyte function; Immunomodulation; Mistletoe therapy; Oxidative burst; Surgical stress; Viscum album

Indexed keywords

VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL STRESS; VISCUM ALBUM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY BURST;

EID: 28444445184     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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