Therapeutic effect of a traditional Chinese medicine, ren-shen-yang-rong- tang (Japanese name: Ninjin'yoeito) on nitric oxide-mediated lung injury in a mouse infected with murine cytomegalovirus

International Immunopharmacology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 678-685

  Tanaka, Kazuo ^a   Sawamura, Sadaaki ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Ninjin'yoeito; Nitric oxide; Peumonitis; Radical scavenger

Indexed keywords

ANGELICA ROOT; ASTRAGALI RADIX EXTRACT; ATRACTYLODIS RHIZOMA EXTRACT; AURANTI NOBILIS EXTRACT; CHINESE DRUG; CINNAMONI CORTEX EXTRACT; GAMMA INTERFERON; GINSENG EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; HOELEN EXTRACT; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; NITRIC OXIDE; PAEONIA RADIX; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYGALA RADIX EXTRACT; REBMANNIA RADIX EXTRACT; REN SHEN YANG RONG TANG; SCAVENGER; SCHISANDRA FRUCTUS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGELICA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTRAGALI; ATRACTYLODES; AURANTI NOBILIS; CHINESE MEDICINE; CINNAMONI CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG EFFICACY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GINSENG; GLYCYRRHIZA; HISTOLOGY; HOELEN; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LUNG INJURY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAEONIA; PATHOGENESIS; POLYGALACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REBMANNIA; SCHISANDRACEAE; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS; CELL COUNT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PNEUMONIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 33644513717     PISSN: 15675769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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