The role of NK cells in antitumor activity of dietary fucoidan from Undaria pinnatifida sporophylls (Mekabu)

Planta Medica

Volumn 72, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1415-1417

  Maruyama, Hiroko ^a   Tamauchi, Hidekazu ^a   Iizuka, Mariko ^b   Nakano, Takahisa ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN VITAMIN CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOIDIN; OVALBUMIN;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH; UNDARIA;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVALBUMIN; PHYTOTHERAPY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TH1 CELLS; UNDARIA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; MUS; UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA;

EID: 33846256216     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-951703     Document Type: Article

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