Table 1.

Effect of Acanthopanax gracilistylus extract (AGE) on the proliferative response of peripheral blood lymphocytes† (PBL)

†PBL (2 × 10⁵) were cultured with 10 μg/ml concanavalin A (Con A), 0.01% Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) or 10 μg/ml AGE for 3 days, labelled with ³H-TdR for the last 15 h and harvested. Then the ³H-TdR uptake by PBL was counted. Results are expressed as mean ct/min of ³H-TdR uptake with s.e.m. in triplicate cultures.

‡AGE (1 g dried weight) was extracted in 100 ml of boiling water for 1 h. The extract contained 1780 μg/ml protein determined by the Lowry method.

*Significantly inhibited.