Immunomodulatory effects of dietary supplementation with a milk-based wolfberry formulation in healthy elderly: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-97

  Vidal, Karine ^a   Bucheli, Peter ^a   Gao, Quitao ^a   Moulin, Julie ^a   Shen, Li Song ^b   Wang, Junkuan ^a   Blum, Stephanie ^a   Benyacoub, Jalil ^a  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b XINHUA HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LYCIUM EXTRACT; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGED; AGING; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING RATE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LYCIUM; MALE; MILK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEROCONVERSION; SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTIGENS; AUTOANTIBODIES; CELL SEPARATION; CHINA; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INFLAMMATION; LYCIUM; MALE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PLACEBOS;

EID: 84863164564     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: 15578577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2011.1241     Document Type: Article

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