Medicinal Plants from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Used as Immunostimulants
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Medicinal Plants from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Used as Immunostimulants
A literature review was undertaken by analyzing distinguished books, undergraduate and postgraduate theses, and peer-reviewed scientific articles and by consulting worldwide accepted scientific databases, such as SCOPUS, Web of Science, SCIELO, Medline, and Google Scholar. Medicinal plants used as immunostimulants were classified into two categories: (1) plants with pharmacological studies and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1741-427X,1741-4288
DOI: 10.1155/2016/4017676