Selenium reverses Pteridium aquilinum-induced immunotoxic effects

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 464-470

  Latorre, A O ^a   Caniceiro, B D ^a   Wysocki, H L ^b   Haraguchi, M ^b   Gardner, D R ^c   Gorniak S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BIOLÓGICO   (Brazil)

^c Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum); Cytotoxicity; Immunotoxicity; Natural killer cell; Ptaquiloside; Selenium

Indexed keywords

PTAQUILOSIDE; SODIUM SELENITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACKEN FERN; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; INDANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PTERIDIUM; SELENIUM; SESQUITERPENES; SPLEEN;

MUS; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 78951471986     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.11.026     Document Type: Article

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