Effect of extracts from indigowood root (isatis indigotica fort.) on immune responses in radiation-induced mucositis

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 771-778

  You, Weir Chiang ^a   Hsieh, Chang Chi ^b   Huang, Jia Tsz ^c  

^a Chang Bing Show Chan Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; HEMOGLOBIN; INDIGOWOOD EXTRACT; INDIRUBIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS; ANOREXIA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDIGOWOOD; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT CHANGE;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; ISATIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTHWASHES; MUCOSITIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANT ROOTS; POWDERS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; REST; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 67749091310     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2008.0322     Document Type: Article

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