Uncaria tomentosa aqueous-ethanol extract triggers an immunomodulation toward a Th2 cytokine profile

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1229-1235

  Domingues, Alexandre ^a   Sartori, Alexandrina ^a   Valente, Ligia Maria Marino ^b   Golim, Marjorie Assis ^a   Siani, Antonio Carlos ^c   Viero, Rosa Marlene ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cytokines; immune system; immunophenotype; immunotoxicity; mice; Uncaria tomentosa

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALKALOID; CYTOKINE; OXINDOLE; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA EXTRACT; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BARK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SPLEEN; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THYMUS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA;

ANIMALS; CAT'S CLAW; CYTOKINES; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INDOLE ALKALOIDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT STEMS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TH2 CELLS;

MUS; RUBIACEAE; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA;

EID: 80051682576     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3549     Document Type: Article

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