Microemulsion of babassu oil as a natural product to improve human immune system function

Drug Design, Development and Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-31

  Pessoa, Rafael Souza ^a   França, Eduardo Luzia ^a,b   Ribeiro, Elton Brito ^a   Lanes, Patrícia Kelly Dias ^a   Chaud, Natalina Galdeano Abud ^a   Moraes, Lucélia Campelo Albuquerque ^b   Honorio França, Adenilda Cristina ^a,b  

^a Post graduate Program in Material science   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Babassu; Delivery systems; Microemulsion; Phagocytes; Vegetable oil

Indexed keywords

BABASSU OIL; DISTILLED WATER; NATURAL PRODUCT; POLYSORBATE 80; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; BUTANOL; EMULSION; HEXOSE; POLYSORBATE; SORBITAN OLEATE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG STABILITY; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROBICIDAL ACTIVITY; MICROEMULSION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; VISCOSITY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMULSION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PHARMACOLOGY;

1-BUTANOL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; EMULSIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXOSES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHAGOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLANT OILS; POLYSORBATES; RHEOLOGY; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 84919634923     PISSN: 11778881     EISSN: 11778881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S73756     Document Type: Article

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