Enhancement of innate and adaptive immune functions by multiple Echinacea species

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 423-434

  Zhai, Zili ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Wu, Lankun ^a   Senchina, David S ^a   Wurtele, Eve S ^a   Murphy, Patricia A ^a   Kohut, Marian L ^a   Cunnick, Joan E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; BALB c mice; Echinacea; Immunomodulation; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; CAFFEIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFLORA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PALLIDA EXTRACT; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; GAMMA INTERFERON; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ISOLATION; ECHINACEA; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; ECHINACEA; ERYTHROCYTES; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGENS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ECHINACEA PALLIDA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; MUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34848842172     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2006.257     Document Type: Article

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