Black tea (Camellia sinensis) decoction shows immunomodulatory properties on an experimental animal model and in human peripheral mononuclear cells

Pharmacognosy Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-21

  Chattopadhyay, Chandan ^a   Chakrabarti, Nandini ^b   Chatterjee, Mitali ^c   Mukherjee, Sonali ^a   Sarkar, Kajari ^a   Chaudhuri, A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NRS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; black tea; immunomodulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BLACK TEA DECOCTION; CARRAGEENAN; DEXTRAN; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INDOMETACIN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECT; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; RAT; TEA;

EID: 84865470512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09748490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.91029     Document Type: Article

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