Screening for anti-inflammatory and bronchorelaxant activities of 12 commonly used chinese herbal medicines

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 915-925

  Yue, Grace G L ^a   Chan, Ben C L ^a   Kwok, Hin Fai ^a   To, Ming Ho ^a   Hon, Kam Lun ^a   Fung, Kwok Pui ^a   Lau, Clara B S ^a   Leung, Ping Chung ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

asthma; Chinese herbal medicine; human peripheral blood mononuclear cells; RAW264.7 cells; respiratory tract pathology; trachea

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ASTER TATARICUS EXTRACT; ASTRAGALUS MEMBRANACEUS EXTRACT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CITRUS RETICULATE EXTRACT; CORDYCEPS MILITARIS EXTRACT; CYNANCHUM STAUNTONII EXTRACT; FRITILLARIA CIRRHOSA EXTRACT; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 10; PLANT EXTRACT; PLATYCODON GRANDIFLORUM EXTRACT; SAPOSHNIKOVIA DIVARICATA EXTRACT; SCHIZONEPETA TENUIFOLIA EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS EXTRACT; SITOSTEROL; STEMONA SESSILIFOLIA EXTRACT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTER TATARICUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CITRUS RETICULATE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDYCEPS; CYNANCHUM; CYNANCHUM STAUNTONII; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EX VIVO STUDY; FRITILLARIA CIRRHOSA; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SAPOSHNIKOVIA DIVARICATA; SCHIZONEPETA TENUIFOLIA; STEMONA SESSILIFOLIA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CARBACHOL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DINOPROSTONE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-10; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS; TRACHEA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

RATTUS;

EID: 84861804447     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3659     Document Type: Article

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