Pharmacology and immunological actions of a herbal medicine ASHMI™ on allergic asthma

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1047-1055

  Zhang, Tengfei ^a   Srivastava, Kamal ^a   Wen, Ming Chun ^a,b   Yang, Nan ^a   Cao, Jing ^a,c   Busse, Paula ^a   Birmingham, Neil ^a   Goldfarb, Joseph ^a   Li, Xiu Min ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Weifang Asthma Hospital   (China)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway hyperreactivity; Allergic asthma; Th2 cytokines and airway smooth muscle contractility; Traditional Chinese herbal medicine

Indexed keywords

ASHMI; GANODERMA LUCIDUM EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOTRIENE C4; OVALBUMIN; PROSTACYCLIN; SOPHORA FLAVESCENS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG STRUCTURE; EOSINOPHIL; GANODERMA LUCIDUM; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SOPHORA; SPLEEN CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYTOKINES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; EOSINOPHILS; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOTRIENE C4; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; OVALBUMIN; PROSTAGLANDINS; TRACHEA;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 77954496066     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3077     Document Type: Article

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