Purified aged garlic extract modulates allergic airway inflammation in Balb/c mice

Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 133-141

  Zare, Ahad ^a,b   Farzaneh, Parvaneh ^b   Pourpak, Zahra ^b   Zahedi, Fatemeh ^b   Moin, Mostafa ^b   Shahabi, Shahram ^c   Hassan, Zuhair M ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aged garlic extract; Allergic airway inflammation; IFN ; IgE; IgG1; Murine model

Indexed keywords

GARLIC EXTRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; OVALBUMIN;

AIRWAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; EOSINOPHILS; GARLIC; GOBLET CELLS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 52249115629     PISSN: 17351502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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