Immunostimolatory activities of Vigna mungo L. extract in male Sprague–Dawley rats

References

• Abbas, A. K., and Lichtman, A. H. ( Eds.) 2001. Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company.
   Google Scholar
• Agarwal, S. S., and Singh, V. K. 1999. Immunomdulators: A review of studies on Indian medicinal plants and synthetic peptides, Part-I: Medicinal plants. Proc. Indian. Natl. Sci. Acad. 65:179–204.
   Google Scholar
• Atal, C. K., Sharma, M. L., Kaul, A., and Khajuria, A. 1986. Immunomodulating agents of plant origin, I: Preliminary screening. J. Ethnopharmacol. 18:133–141.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bafna, A. R., and Mishra, S. H. 2005. Immunomodulatory activity of methanol extract of roots of Cissampelos pareira Linn. Ars. Pharm. 46:253–262.
   Google Scholar
• Biozzi, G., Benacerraf, B., and Halpern, B. N. 1953. Quantitative study of the granulopoetic activity of reticuloendothelial system (RES). II: A study of kinetics of the RES relationship between weight of organs and their activity. Br. J. Exp. Biol. 34:441–456.
   Google Scholar
• CPCSEA (Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals). 2003. CPCSEA guidelines for laboratory animal facility. Indian J. Pharmacol. 35:257–272.
   Google Scholar
• Dale, M. M., and Forman, J. C. ( Eds.) 1989. Textbook of Immunopharmacology, 2nd edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publication.
   Google Scholar
• Damre, A. S., Gokhale, A. B., Phadke, A. S., Kulkarni, K. R., and Saraf, M. N. 2003. Studies on the immunomodulator activity of flavonoidal fraction of Tephrosia purpurea. Fitoterapia 74:257–261.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Doherty, N. S. 1981. Selective effects of immunosuppressive agents against the delayed hypersensitivity response and humoral response to sheep red blood cells in mice. Agents Actions 11:237–242.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Fulzele, S. V., Bhurchandi, P. M., Kanoje, V. M., Joshi, S. B., and Dorle, A. K. 2002. Immunostimulant activity of Asthmangal ghrita in rats. Indian. J. Pharmacol. 34:194–197.
   Google Scholar
• Goldsby, R. A., Kindt, T. J., Osborne, B. A., and Kuby, J. ( Eds.) 2003. Immunology. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co.
   Google Scholar
• Lagrange, P. H., Mackaness, G. B., and Miller, T. E. 1974. Potential of T-cell-mediated immunity by selective suppression of antibody formation with cyclophosphamide. J. Exp. Med. 139:1529–1539.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lee, K., and Shibamoto, T. 2000. Antioxidant properties of aroma compounds isolated from soybeans and mung beans. J. Agric. Food. Chem. 48:4290–4293.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mayer, G. 2009. Response to antigen: Processing and presentation. Immunology. Microbiology and Immunology On-Line; University of South Carolina School of Medicine. http://www.pathmicro.med.sc.edu/bowers/ant-pres.htm [Assessed 21 November 2009].
   Google Scholar
• Mishra, S. N. 2005. Bhaisajya Ratnavali. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India: Chaukambha Surbharti Prakashan.
   Google Scholar
• Mitra, S. K., Gupta, M., and Sarma, D. N. 1999. Immunomodulatory effects of IM-133. Phytother. Res. 13:341–343.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peng, X., Zheng, Z., Cheng, K., Shan, F., Ren, G., Chen, F., and Wang, M. 2008. Inhibitory effects of mung bean extract and its constituents vitexin and isovitexin on the formation of advanced glycation end-products. Food. Chem. 106:475–481.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Puri, S., Ray, A., Chakravarti, A. K., and Sen, P. 1994. Role of dopaminergic mechanisms in the regulation of stress responses in experimental animals. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 48:53–56.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raphael, T. J., and Kuttan, G. 2003. Effect of naturally-occurring triterpenoids glycyrrhizic acid, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, and nomilin on the immune system. Phytomedicine 10:483–489.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reeta, K. H., Mediratta, P. K., Mahajan, P., and Sharma, K. K. 2002. Effect of minocycline and tetracycline on immunological responses in experimental animals. Indian J. Med.Sci. 56:553–559.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Roitt, I. M., and Delves, P. J. ( Eds.) 1998. Encyclopedia of Immunology. London, UK: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Shinde, U. A., Phadke, A. S., Nair, A. M., Mungantiwar, A. A., Dikshit, V. J., and Saraf, M. N. 1999. Preliminary studies on the immunomodulatory activity of Cedrus deodara wood oil. Fitoterapia 70:333–339.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stein-Streilein, J., and Hart, D. A. 1980 Effect of route of immunization on development of antibody-forming cells in hilar lymph nodes. Infect. Immun. 30:391–396.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Swaminathan, M. S., and Jain, H. K. 1975. Food legumes in Indian agriculture. In: Nutritional Improvement of Food Legumes by Breeding. (Milner, N., Ed.), New York: John Wiley, pp. 69–82.
   Google Scholar
• Wagner, H., and Proksh, A. 1985. Immunostimulatory drugs of fungi and higher plants. In: Economic and Medicinal Plant Research, Vol. 1. (Wagner, H., Hikino, H., and Farnsworth, N. R., Eds.), London, UK: Academic Press, pp. 113–121.
   Google Scholar
• Warrier, P. K., Nambiar, V. P., and Ramankutty, C. ( Eds.) 1996. Indian Medicinal Plants: A Compendium of 500 species. Volume 5. Madras, Tamil Nadu, India: Orient Longman.
   Google Scholar
• Wilkonson, P. C. 1978. Neutrophil adhesion test. In: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, Vol. 1. (Vane, J. R., and Ferraria, S. H., Eds.), Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, pp. 109–110.
   Google Scholar