Echinacea-induced macrophage activation

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 553-574

  Sullivan, Allyn M ^a   Laba, Jennifer G ^a   Moore, Jill A ^a   Lee, Timothy D G ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell Activation; Cytokines; Macrophage; Signal Transduction

Indexed keywords

ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; NITRIC OXIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; ENZYME INHIBITION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHINACEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NF-KAPPA B; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMYXIN B; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHINACEA PURPUREA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 48349139378     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: 15322513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08923970802135534     Document Type: Article

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