Immunostimulating activity of crude polysaccharide extract isolated from Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb.

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1428-1438

  Kim, Ah Jin ^a   Kim, Yeon O ^a   Shim, Jae Seok ^a   Hwang, Jae Kwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb.; Immunostimulating; Phagocytosis; Polysaccharide

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MACROPHAGES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUGAR (SUCROSE);

CURCUMA XANTHORRHIZA ROXB.; FLUORESCEIN; IMMUNOSTIMULATING; NUCLEAR FACTORS; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CURCUMA LONGA; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CURCUMA; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

CURCUMA LONGA; CURCUMA XANTHORRHIZA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; XANTHORHIZA;

EID: 34347335803     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.60241     Document Type: Article

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