An extract of the mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill protects against lethal septicemia in a mouse model of fecal peritonitis

Shock

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 420-425

  Bernardshaw, Soosaipillai ^a   Hetland, Geir ^a   Grinde, Björn ^b   Johnson, Egil ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agaricus blazei Murill; Colony forming units; Gastroenterological surgery; Peritonitis; Septicemia; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGARICUS BLAZEI EXTRACT; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PROPHYLAXIS; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGARICUS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PERITONITIS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33646755887     PISSN: 10732322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.shk.0000209526.58614.92     Document Type: Article

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