Come back to root - Therapeutic activities of Scutellaria baicalensis root in aspect of innate immunity regulation - Part I

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 337-345

  Błach Olszewska, Zofia ^a   Lamer Zarawska, Eliza ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antiinflammatory activity; Antimicrobial; Antitumor; Innate immunity; Scutellaria baicalensis flavonoids

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANTOKSYD; BAICALEIN; BAICALIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CATECHIN; CEFOTAXIME; FLAVOCOXID; FLAVONE; FLAVONOID; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS EXTRACT; LIMBREL; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SABAL EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS EXTRACT; TETRACYCLINE; WOGONIN; WOGONOSIDE; XIAO CHAI HU TANG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLITIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DRUG POTENTIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NAUSEA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PLANT ROOT; REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SCUTELLARIA; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS;

EID: 48049092641     PISSN: 1230025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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