Yu Ping Feng San, an ancient Chinese herbal decoction containing Astragali Radix, Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma and Saposhnikoviae Radix, regulates the release of cytokines in murine macrophages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Du, Crystal Y Q ^a,b   Choi, Roy C Y ^a   Zheng, Ken Y Z ^b   Dong, Tina T X ^a   Lau, David T W ^a   Tsim, Karl W K ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HANSHAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 O METHYLVISAMMIOSIDE; ANGELICIN; ASTRAGALOSIDE 2; ASTRAGALOSIDE 3; ASTRAGALOSIDE 4; ATRACTYLENOLIDE 1; ATRACTYLENOLIDE 2; ATRACTYLENOLIDE 3; CALYCOSIN; CALYCOSIN 7 O BETA GLUCOSIDE; CHINESE DRUG; CYTOKINE; FOMONONETIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; O GLUCOSYLCIMIFUGIN; ONONIN; PLANT EXTRACT; PSORALEN; SCOPOLETIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YU PING FENG SAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; ATRACTYLODES; CELL CULTURE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MACROPHAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SAPOSHNIKOVIAE;

ANIMALS; APIACEAE; ATRACTYLODES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE;

EID: 84892944178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078622     Document Type: Article

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