Sodium benzoate, a metabolite of cinnamon and a food additive, reduces microglial and astroglial inflammatory responses

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 5917-5927

  Brahmachari, Saurav ^a   Jana, Arundhati ^a   Pahan, Kalipada ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYL 4 PHENYLPYRIDINIUM; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BENZOIC ACID; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CHOLESTEROL; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEVALONIC ACID; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; PROTEIN FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UBIQUINONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CINNAMON; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROGLIA; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CYTOKINES; FOOD ADDITIVES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEVALONIC ACID; MICE; MICROGLIA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; SODIUM BENZOATE;

EID: 77954152480     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0803336     Document Type: Article

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