Effects of Japanese mistletoe lectin on cytokine gene expression in human colonic carcinoma cells and in the mouse intestine

Biomedical Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 303-309

  Monira, Pervin ^a   Koyama, Yu ^b   Fukutomi, Ryuuta ^c   Yasui, Kensuke ^c   Isemura, Mamoru ^a   Yokogoshi, Hidehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NISSHIN SEIFUN GROUP INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PLANT LECTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DUODENUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; JAPAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; VISCUM ALBUM;

ANIMALS; CACO-2 CELLS; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICE; MISTLETOE; PLANT LECTINS;

EID: 70350786571     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.30.303     Document Type: Article

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