Effect of an extract based on the medicinal mushroom agaricus blazei murill on release of cytokines, chemokines and leukocyte growth factors in human blood ex vivo and in vivo

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 242-250

  Johnson, E ^a,b,c   Forland D T ^b   Saetre L ^d   Bernardshaw, S V ^b   Lyberg, T ^d   Hetland, G ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Department of Gastroenterological Surgery ^*  (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d InterCorNet   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGARICUS BLAZEI EXTRACT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ANDOSAN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA GLUCAN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ADULT; AGARICUS BLAZEI; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFECT; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MUSHROOM; NORMAL HUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UPREGULATION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGARICUS; BLOOD; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60349104929     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: 13653083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2008.02218.x     Document Type: Article

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