## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Curcumin, the yellow pigment in turmeric, has been shown to prevent tumor progression in a variety of tissues in rodents. The authors investigated the effect of curcumin on human carcinoma cell lines to determine whether constitutive interleukin‐8 (__IL‐8__) production of
Interleukin-18 enhances the production of interleukin-8 by eosinophils
✍ Scribed by Way Wang; Toshio Tanaka; Haruki Okamura; Minoru Sugita; Shinji Higa; Tadamitsu Kishimoto; Masaki Suemura
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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