Experiment 635325
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | SC |
| Organism | Viscum album (LORANTHACEAE) |
| Citation | STOSS,M: VAN WELY,M: MUSIELSKY,H: GORTER,RW:. (1999). STUDY ON LOCAL INFLAMMATORY REACTIONS AND OTHER PARAMETERS DURING SUBCUTANEOUS MISTLETOE APPLICATION IN HIV-POSITIVE PATIENTS AND HIV-NEGATIVE SUBJECTS OVER A PERIOD OF 18 WEEKS.. 49(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 1 COHORTS CONSISTING OF 30 HIV-ANTIBODY-POSITIVE PATIENTS AND 17 HEALTHY NON-SMOKERS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO 2 GROUPS. THEY RECEIVED VAQUFRF AN AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF VISCUM ALBUM L. GROWN IN OAK TREES, A FERMENTED AQUENOUS EXTRACT. THE HIV- POSITIVE PATIENTS AND HIV-NEGATIVE SUBJECTS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF TWO DIFFERENT TREATMENT GROUPS AFTER THREE BASELINE EXAMINATIONS AT INTERVALS OF 7 DAYS. AFTER THE INITIAL 2 INJECTIONS, THE FIRST EXAMINATION WAS CONDUCTED AND THE FIRST BLOOD SAMPLE WAS TAKEN. ALL SUBSEQUENT CONTROL EXAMINATIONS WERE CONDUCTED AT INTERVALS OF 14 DAYS. THE APPLICATION SCHEDULE INVOLVED 2 INJECTIONS PER WEEK AT DOSES SHOWN TABLE 2. AT EACH VISIT THE INJECTION SITE FOR OCCURANCE OF ERYTHEMA INDURATION, SWELLING, PURITUS, PAIN AND DOCUMENTED. IN THE HIV-POSITIVE PATIENTS, THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANTLY LESS FREQUENT OCCURRENCE OF ERYTHEMA IN HTE DOSE RANGE <1.0 MG AND <5.0 MG, BUT MUCH HIGHER AT 1.2 MG. IN HIV-NEGATIVES, THERE WAS MORE REPORTS OF INDURATION AT <1.0 MG AND MORE PAIN AND PURITUS AT <5.0 MG. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | H2O EXT |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |