Jungle honey enhances immune function and antitumor activity

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Takeuchi, Minoru ^a   Fukuda, Miki ^a   Kobayashi, Kengo ^a   Hirono, Yuriko ^a   Miyagawa, Mayuko ^a   Ishida, Takahiro ^a   Ejiogu, Emenike C ^b   Sawai, Masaharu ^c   Pinkerton, Kent E ^d  

^a KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Origins Japan Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c TAKARA SHUZO CO LTD   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NATURAL PRODUCT; PROTEIN GR 1; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; FRACTIONATION; GEL FILTRATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HONEY; HONEYBEE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 79251591000     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nen086     Document Type: Article

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