Experiment 66955
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Lycopersicon esculentum (SOLANACEAE) |
| Citation | WATZL,B: BUB,A: BLOCKHAUS,M: HERBERT,BM: LUHRMAN,PM: NEUHASUER-BERTHOLD,M: RECHKLEMMER,G:. (2000). PROLONGED TOMATO JUICE CONSUMPTION HAS NO EFFECT ON CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY OF WELL-NOURISHED ELDERLY MEN AND WOMEN.. 130(7) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | IN AN INTERVENHTION STUDY, 33 FEMALE AND 20 MALE SUBJECTS CONSUMED 330 ML/D TOMATO JUICE (47.1 MG/D LYOCPENE) OR MINERAL WATER FOR 8 WK. IMMUNE STATUS WAS ASSESSED BY MEASURING NUMBER AND LYTIC ACTIVITY OF NTURAL KILLER (NK) CELLS, SECRETION OF CYTOKINES BY ACTIVATED PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS (PBMC), LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION, AND DELAYED-TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY (DTH) SKIN RESPONSES. IN BOTH TREATMENT GROUPS, TNF-ALPHA AND IL-4 SECRETIION WERE INCREASED AT THE END OF THE INTERVENTION PERIOD, WHEREAS IL-2 SECRETION WAS DECREASE. TOMATO JUICE CONSUMPTION HAD NO EFFECT ON LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION , DTH OR THE NUMBER OF NK CELLS. LYTIC ACTIVITY OF NK CELLS WAS INCREASED IN BOTH GROUPS AT THE END OF THE INTERVENTION PERIOD. |
| Dose amount | 330.0 ML |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | JUICE |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |