The influence of traditional herbal formulas on cytokine activity

Toxicology

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-159

  Burns, J J ^a   Zhao, Lijun ^b   Taylor, Ethan Will ^b   Spelman, Kevin ^b,c  

^a Pinnacle Integrative Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c Tai Sophia Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Herbal formula; Immunomodulator; Interleukin (IL); Traditional medicine; Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)

Indexed keywords

BOUUM MYUNYUK DAN; CHINESE DRUG; CYTOKINE; DAEGANGHWAL TANG; DANG GUI BU XUE TANG; FEI SHU LING; GAMCHO SASIM TANG; HACHIMIJIOGAN; HOCHUEKKI; HWANGLYUN HAEDOK TANG; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; JEO DANG TANG; KAKKON TO; KAN JANG; KANZO BUSHI TO; KEYULING; LIU SHEN WAN; MAO BUSHI SAISHIN TO; NAO YI AN; NINJIN TO; PANAWANG; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; QING HUO BAI DU YIN; REN SHEN YANG RONG TANG; SAIREI TO; SENG FU TANG; SESIM TANG; SHAUR YAU GAN TSAO TANG; SHI KA RON; SHI QUAN DA BU TANG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHINESE HERB; CHINESE MEDICINE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; ECHINACEA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CYTOKINES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

COMMELINA BENGHALENSIS; PANAX GINSENG; THUJA;

EID: 78149415859     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2009.09.020     Document Type: Article

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