Zizyphus lotus L. (Desf.) modulates antioxidant activity and human T-cell proliferation

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Benammar, Chahid ^a,b   Hichami, Aziz ^b   Yessoufou, Akadiri ^b   Simonin, Anne Marie ^b   Belarbi, Meriem ^a   Allali, Hocine ^a   Khan, Naim A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; DNA; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; ICOSATRIENOIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 2; LINOLEIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT EXTRACT; RETINOL; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIZYPHUS LOTUS EXTRACT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG DETERMINATION; FRUIT; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; JUJUBE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; ZIZYPHUS LOTUS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; PLANT MORPHOLOGY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CELL LINE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LINOLEIC ACID; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICRONUTRIENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT STRUCTURES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E; ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 77956940185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-54     Document Type: Article

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