Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 734319, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/734319
Research Article
Immunomodulatory Role of Ocimum gratissimum and Ascorbic Acid against Nicotine-Induced Murine Peritoneal Macrophages In Vitro
Immunology and Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Human Physiology with Community Health, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore 721 102, India
Received 2 August 2011; Accepted 23 September 2011
Academic Editor: Pranela Rameshwar
Copyright © 2011 Santanu Kar Mahapatra et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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