Chinese herbal medicine Yin-Chen-Extract as an adjunct to anthelmintic albendazole used against Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced eosinophilic meningitis or meningoencephalitis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 556-562

  Lai, Shih Chan ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; CASEIN; CHINESE DRUG; CYTOKINE; GELATIN; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROKINASE RECEPTOR; YIN CHEN EXTACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1; PRIMER DNA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CHINESE HERB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM; ZYMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENETICS; MENINGITIS; MOUSE; NEMATODIASIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; MUS;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33750591386     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.75.556     Document Type: Article

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