Anticancer properties of Scutellaria baicalensis root in aspect of innate immunity regulation

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 419-428

  Lamer Zarawska, Eliza ^a   Wiśniewska, Agnieszka ^b   Błach Olszewska, Zofia ^b  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anticancer properties; Effect on innate immunity; Inhibition of cell cycle; Reduction of inflammation; Scutellaria baicalensis flavones; Stimulation of apoptosis

Indexed keywords

2',3',5,7 TETRAHYDROXYFLAVONE; 2',5,7 TRIHYDROXYFLAVONE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BAICALEIN; BAICALIN; CYCLINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYTOKINE; ETOPOSIDE; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OROXYLIN A; PC SPES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOGONIN; WOGONOSIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADENOMA; ADVANCED CANCER; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; COLON CANCER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DUCK HEPATITIS B; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VIRUS REPLICATION;

SCUTELLARIA; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS;

EID: 77957302789     PISSN: 1230025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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