Regulation of inflammatory gene expression in PBMCs by immunostimulatory botanicals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Denzler, Karen L ^a   Waters, Robert ^a,b   Jacobs, Bertram L ^a   Rochon, Yvan ^b,c   Langland, Jeffrey O ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southwest College Naturopathic Med   (United States)

^c Herbal Vitality Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BOTANY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; SAMBUCUS; SAMBUCUS CERULEA; URTICA DIOICA; WOUND HEALING; ANDROGRAPHIS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL;

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; SAMBUCUS NIGRA CERULEA; URTICA DIOICA;

ANDROGRAPHIS; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PLANT EXTRACTS; SAMBUCUS; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 77958548066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012561     Document Type: Article

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