Aureobasidium-derived soluble branched (1,3-1,6) β-glucan (sophy β-glucan) enhances natural killer activity in Leishmania amazonensis-infected mice

Korean Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 345-351

  Yatawara, Lalani ^a   Wickramasinghe, Susiji ^a   Nagataki, Mitsuru ^a,b   Takamoto, Misa ^b   Nomura, Haruka ^a   Ikeue, Yasunori ^b   Watanabe, Yoshiya ^b   Agatsuma, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Life Science Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

IFN ; Leishmania amazonensis; Nk activity; Sophy glucan

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; SOPHY BETA GLUCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FOOT PAD; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PROMASTIGOTE; THICKNESS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOOT; GLUCANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

AUREOBASIDIUM; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; MUS;

EID: 71549131636     PISSN: 00234001     EISSN: 17380006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3347/kjp.2009.47.4.345     Document Type: Article

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