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Immunomodulatory Agents from Plants

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Abstract

Immunostimulants [1, 2] or immunopotentiators are drugs leading predominantly to a non-specific stimulation of immunological defence mechanisms. Most of them are not real antigens but antigenomimetics or so-called mitogens. Non-specific and non-antigen dependent stimulants do not affect immunological memory cells and, since their pharmacological efficacy fades comparatively quickly, they have to be administered either in intervals or continuously. Some immunostimulants may also stimulate T-suppressor cells and thereby reduce immune resistance, hence the term immunomodulation or immunoregulation, denoting any effect on, or change of, immune responsiveness is also very often used.

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