Immunostimulatory effect of immunostim plus - A standardized fixed combination of Schizandra chinensis with Eleutherococcus senticosus extracts on lymphocyte-dependent cellular immunity in mice

Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 461-465

  Skopińska Rózewska, Ewa ^a   Siwicki, Andrzej K ^b   Wójcik, Roman ^b   Małaczewska, Joanna ^b   Trapkowska, Sylwia ^b   Nartowska, Jadwiga ^a   Bałan, Barbara J ^a   Wasiutyński, Aleksander ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cellular immunity; Eleutherococcus; Humoral immunity; Lymphocytes; Mice; Schizandra

Indexed keywords

ELEUTHEROCOCCUS; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS; MUS; SCHISANDRA; SCHISANDRA CHINENSIS; SCHISANDRACEAE;

EID: 33847695303     PISSN: 00424870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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