Augmented humoral immune response and decreased cellmediated immunity by Aloe vera in rats

Inflammopharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 343-346

  Halder, Sumita ^a   Mehta, Ashish K ^a   Mediratta, Pramod K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Aloe vera; Cell mediated immunity; Humoral immunity

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; FOOT PAD; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE;

ALOE; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84872146831     PISSN: 09254692     EISSN: 15685608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10787-012-0134-8     Document Type: Article

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