Anti-allergic effect of pleuran (β-glucan from pleurotus ostreatus) in children with recurrent respiratory tract infections

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 471-474

  Jesenak, Milos ^a   Hrubisko, Martin ^b   Majtan, Juraj ^c,d   Rennerova, Zuzana ^e   Banovcin, Peter ^a  

^a University Hospital in Martin   (Slovakia)

^b St Elisabeth' Oncological Institute   (Slovakia)

^c SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^e Pneumo Alergo Centrum   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

allergic diseases; biologically active polysaccharides; natural immunomodulator; Pleuran; Recurrent respiratory tract infections; glucans

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BETA GLUCAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; IMUNOGLUKAN P 4H; PLACEBO; PLEURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTIALLERGIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RECURRENT RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS;

ALLERGIC DISEASES; BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE POLYSACCHARIDES; NATURAL IMMUNOMODULATOR; PLEURAN; RECURRENT RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SS-GLUCANS;

ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; BETA-GLUCANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; PLEUROTUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84895792348     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.5020     Document Type: Article

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