The immunomodulatory effects of Pleurotus florida on cell-mediated immunity and secondary lymphoid tissues in Balb/c mice

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-33

  Sedaghat, Reza ^a   Ghazanfari, Tooba ^a  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

cell mediated immunity; histology; immunomodulatory; lymph nodes; Pleurotus florida; spleen

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL EXTRACT; PLEUROTUS FLORIDA EXTRACT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLEUROTUS; SPLEEN;

MUS; PLEUROTUS FLORIDANUS;

EID: 79551581589     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: 15322513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08923971003691916     Document Type: Article

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