Effect of WuWeiXiaoDuYin (五味消毒饮) and its components on LFA-1 mediated leukocyte adhesion to ICAM-1.

• Main Author: Tan, Kang Ting.
• Other Authors: Law Sai-Kit Alex
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50650
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Inflammation is one of the reactions of the body’s immune system to injury, microbes and other foreign substances. Leukocytes circulate as non-adherent cells and are recruited to the specific site of inflammation after the activation of cell adhesion molecules by pro-inflammatory mediators and cytok...