The effect of crocus sativus extract on human lymphocytes' cytokines and T helper 2/T helper 1 balance

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1538-1545

  Boskabady, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Seyedhosseini Tamijani, Seyedh Masoumeh ^a   Rafatpanah, Houshang ^b   Rezaee, Abdolrahim ^b   Alavinejad, Azam ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

cell viability; Crocus sativus; cytokine; human lymphocyte; Iridaceae; peripheral mononuclear cell

Indexed keywords

CROCUS SATIVUS EXTRACT; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS SATIVUS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 TH2 BALANCE;

EID: 83455194581     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: 15577600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2011.1697     Document Type: Article

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