Chocolate consumption modulates cytokine production in healthy individuals

Cytokine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-43

  Netea, Stejara A ^a   Janssen, Sam A ^a   Jaeger, Martin ^a   Jansen, Trees ^a   Jacobs, Liesbeth ^a   Miller Tomaszewska, Gosia ^a   Plantinga, Theo S ^a   Netea, Mihai G ^a   Joosten, Leo A B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acne vulgaris; Chocolate; Cytokines; Inflammation; Propionibacterium acne

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 22;

ACNE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FOOD INTAKE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CACAO; CYTOKINES; FLAVONOIDS; HEALTH; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR;

PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

EID: 84875806905     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: 10960023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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