Immunostimulant activity of dry fruits and plant materials used in Indian traditional medical system for mothers after child birth and invalids

被引：91

作者：

Puri, A ^{[1
]}

Sahai, R

Singh, KL

Saxena, RP

Tandon, JS

Saxena, KC

机构：

[1] Cent Drug Res Inst, Div Biochem, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India

[2] Cent Drug Res Inst, Div Med Chem, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India

来源：

JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY | 2000年 / 71卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

immunomodulation; ayurvedic preparation; immunostimulant;

D O I：

10.1016/S0378-8741(99)00181-6

中图分类号：

Q94 [植物学];

学科分类号：

071001 ;

摘要：

Products of certain plants given to mothers after child birth or to invalids were studied for immunostimulant activity using the macrophage migration index (MMI) as a parameter of macrophage activation and cell-mediated immunity and haemagglutinating antibody (HA) titres and plaque-forming cell (PFC) counts as parameters of humoral immunity. Feeding of Prunus amygdalus (Almond(1)) and Buchanania lanzan (Chirronji(1)) significantly stimulated both CMI and humoral immunity in BALB/c mice as evidenced by the enhancement of MMI, HA titres, and PFC counts. Euryale ferox (Tel makhana(1)), Phoenix dactylifera (Chhohara(1)) and Zingiber officinale (Sonth(1)), however, stimulated humoral immunity to a greater extent than CMI. The observation provides scientific basis for feeding the products of above plants to mothers after child birth and to invalids with a relatively poor immune status. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：89 / 92

页数：4

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