Human use of leucoselect® phytosomes® with special reference to inflammatory allergic pathologies in frail elderly patients

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1011-1019

  Magrone, Thea ^a   Pugliese, Vittorio ^b   Fontana, Sergio ^c   Jirillo, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Geriatric Center Mamma Rosa   (Italy)

^c Farmalabor SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Allergy; Immunity; Inflammation; Leucoselect ; Phytosomes ; Polyphenols

Indexed keywords

ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRAPE SEED EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LEUCOSELECT PHYTOSOME; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; CATECHIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84895081929     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161282006140220144411     Document Type: Article

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