Protective effect of isoquinoline alkaloid berberine on spontaneous inflammation in the spleen, liver and kidney of non-obese diabetic mice through downregulating gene expression ratios of pro-/anti-inflammatory and Th1/Th2 cytokines

Food Chemistry

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1263-1271

  Chueh, Wei Han ^a   Lin, Jin Yuarn ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Berberine; NOD mice; Pro anti inflammatory cytokines; Th1 Th2 cytokines

Indexed keywords

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS; BERBERINE; CONTROL GROUPS; CONTROL REGION; CYTOKINE EXPRESSION; CYTOKINES; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOUR-GROUP; HIGH DOSE; ISOQUINOLINES; LOW DOSE; NOD MOUSE; NON-OBESE DIABETICS; PROTECTIVE EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES CONTROL; TYPE 1 DIABETES;

GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MAMMALS;

BERBERINE; CYTOKINE; ISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MOUSE; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; RANDOMIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN INFLAMMATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TUBE FEEDING;

MUS;

EID: 81855221952     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: 18737072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.09.116     Document Type: Article

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