Immunomodulatory agents from plants / Edition 1

by Wagner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764358488
Publisher:	Birkhauser Basel
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Series:	Progress in Inflammation Research Series
Pages:	365
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Search for potent immunostimulating agents from plants and other natural sources

Hildebert Wagner, Stefan Kraus, Ksenija Jurcic

Chemistry, analysis and immunological investigations of Echinacea phytopharmaceuticals

Rudolf Bauer

Immunologically active polysaccharides from Echinacea purpurea plant and cell cultures

Andreas C. Emmendorffer, Hildebert Wagner, Marie-Luise Lohmann-Matthes

Clinical investigations of Echinacea phytopharmaceuticals

Dieter Melchart, Klaus Linde

Benefit and risks of the squeezed sap of the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) for long-term oral immunostimulant therapy

Michael J. Parnham

Low-molecular weight compounds with complement activity

Luc A. C. Pieters, Tess E. De Bruyne, Arnold J. Vlietinck

Complement-activating polysaccharides from medicinal herbs

Haruki Yamada, Hiroaki Kiyohara

Lentinan and other antitumoral polysaccharides

Yukiko Y. Maeda, Goro Chihara

Mistletoe lectins as immunostimulants (chemistry, pharmacology and clinic)

Rainer Samtleben, Tibor Hajto, Katarina Hostanska (et al.)

Saponins as immunoadjuvants and immunostimulants

Marie-Aleth Lacaille-Dubois

Garlic as an immunostimulant

Eikai Kyo, Naoto Uda, Shigeo Kasuga (et al.)

Immunostimulants in Ayurveda medicine

Sharadini A. Dahanukar, Urmila M. Thatte, Nirmala N. Rege

Immunostimulants in traditional Chinese medicine

Pei-Gen Xiao, Chang-Xiao Liu

Index