Betulinic acid exerts immunoregulation and anti-tumor effect on cervical carcinoma (U14) tumor-bearing mice

Pharmazie

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 733-739

  Wang, Peijun ^a,c   Li, Qingwang ^a,b   Li, Kun ^a   Zhang, Xiaobo ^b   Han, Zengsheng ^a   Wang, Jianjie ^a,c   Gao, Dawei ^a   Li, Jian ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JIAMUSI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETULIC ACID; CASPASE 8; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; INTERLEUKIN 2; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BCL 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TUMOR IMMUNITY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 8; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; GENES, BCL-2; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTERLEUKIN-2; KI-67 ANTIGEN; KIDNEY; LIVER; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; TRITERPENES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84866055817     PISSN: 00317144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1691/ph.2012.1822     Document Type: Article

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