Echinacea and anti-inflammatory cytokine responses: Results of a gene and protein array analysis

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 500-508

  Altamirano Dimas, M ^a   Sharma, M ^a   Hudson, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Chemokines; Common cold; Cytokine antibody arrays; Cytokines; Echinacea; Gene arrays; Rhinovirus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHEMOKINE; BETA CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN SECRETION; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION;

ASTERACEAE; ECHINACEA (ASTERACEAE); ECHINACEA PURPUREA; RHINOVIRUS;

EID: 75649151758     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880200902839525     Document Type: Article

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