Screening of five alcoholic plants extracts effects on the immune status of Romanian EIAV infected horses

Romanian Biotechnological Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 6730-6739

  Bolfǎ, Pompei ^a,c   Cǎtoi, Cornel ^a,c   Gal, Adrian ^a,c   Taulescu, Marian ^a,c   Fiţ, Nicodim ^a,c   Nadaş, George ^a,c   Niculae, Mihaela ^a,c   Tǎmaş, Mircea ^b,c   Cuc, Cosmina ^a,c   Spînu, Marina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^b IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c NONE   (Romania)

Author keywords

EIAV; Equines; Herbal extracts; Immune competent cells; Immunity

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA; ANIMALIA; CALENDULA; ECHINACEA PALLIDA; ECHINACEA PURPUREA; EQUIDAE; EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA VIRUS; FLOS; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 84858305528     PISSN: 12245984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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