Chinese herbal anti-asthma tea to go!

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1590-1592

  Wang, Y H ^a   Hogan, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASHMI; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHINESE DRUG; CORTICOSTEROID; GAMMA INTERFERON; GANODERMA LUCIDUM EXTACT; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 25; OVALBUMIN; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; PREDNISONE; SAPHORA FLAVESCENS EXTRACT; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASTHMA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SENSITIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TEA; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LUNG; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; TEA; TH2 CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 78649407596     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2010.03621.x     Document Type: Editorial

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