Immunomodulatory agents from plants /
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| Imprint: | Basel ; Boston, Mass. : Birkhàˆuser Verlag, c1999. |
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| Description: | ix, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Progress in inflammation research PIR (Series) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3613457 |
| Summary: | Search for potent immunostimulating agents from plants and other natural sources.- Chemistry, analysis and immunological investigations of Echinacea phytopharmaceuticals.- Immunologically active polysaccharides from Echinacea purpurea plant and cell cultures.- Clinical investigations of Echinacea phytopharmaceuticals.- Benefit and risks of the squeezed sap of the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) for long-term oral immunostimulant therapy.- Low-molecular weight compounds with complement activity.- Complement-activating polysaccharides from medicinal herbs.- Lentinan and other antitumoral polysaccharides.- Mistletoe lectins as immunostimulants (chemistry, pharmacology and clinic).- Saponins as immunoadjuvants and immunostimulants.- Garlic as an immunostimulant.- Immunostimulants in Ayurveda medicine.- Immunostimulants in traditional Chinese medicine. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3764358483 0817658483 |
