Immunomodulatory activity of aqueous extract of Achillea wilhelmsii C. Koch in mice

Indian Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 668-671

  Sharififar, Fariba ^a   Pournourmohammadi, Shirin ^b   Arabnejad, Moslem ^a  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Achillea wilhelmsii; DTH; Haemagglutination titre; Immunity response; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEMAGGLUTININ; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; PLANT EXTRACT; WATER;

ACHILLEA; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; ORGAN SIZE; SPLEEN;

ACHILLEA; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTININS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPLEEN; WATER;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA WILHELMSII; ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 70349320028     PISSN: 00195189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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