Paeoniflorin ameliorates schistosomiasis liver fibrosis through regulating IL-13 and its signalling molecules in mice

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1213-1225

  Li, Xiaoyue ^a,b   Shen, Jilong ^a,b   Zhong, Zhengrong ^a,b   Peng, Jun ^a   Wen, Huiqin ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a,b   Luo, Qingli ^a,b   Wei, Wei ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

hepatic stellate cell; IL 13; liver fibrosis; paeoniflorin; schistosomiasis; STAT6; suppressor of cytokine signalling 1

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; INTERLEUKIN 13; PAEONIFLORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZL 080410; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BRIDGED COMPOUND; GLUCOSIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRANULOMA; LIVER LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STELLATE CELL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRANULOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; PAEONIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

MUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BENZOIC ACIDS; BRIDGED COMPOUNDS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSIDES; GRANULOMA; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; INTERLEUKIN-13; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PAEONIA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77957326602     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201000003X     Document Type: Article

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