Effect of a cocoa-enriched diet on immune response and anaphylaxis in a food allergy model in Brown Norway rats

Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 317-326

  Abril Gil, Mar ^a   Pérez Cano, Francisco J ^a   Franch, Angels ^a   Castell, Margarida ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Institut de Recerca en Nutricio i Seguretat Alimentaria INSA UB   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaphylaxis; Cocoa; Cytokines; Flavonoids; IgE; Mast cell protease

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GHRELIN; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LEPTIN; MAST CELL PROTEASE II; OVALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIALLERGIC ACTIVITY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CACAO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONFERMENTED COCOA; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT MODEL; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN CELL; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; DIET; DISEASE MODEL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CACAO; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; RATS;

EID: 84952863932     PISSN: 09552863     EISSN: 18734847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2015.09.022     Document Type: Article

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