Medroxyprogesterone acetate reduces the production of cytokines and serotonin involved in anorexia/cachexia and emesis by peripheral blood mononuclear cells of cancer patients

Biochem Soc Trans. 1997 May;25(2):296S. doi: 10.1042/bst025296s.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anorexia / blood*
  • Anorexia / etiology
  • Anorexia / immunology
  • Antigens, CD / biosynthesis
  • Antigens, CD / blood
  • Cachexia / blood*
  • Cachexia / etiology
  • Cachexia / immunology
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cytokines / biosynthesis
  • Cytokines / blood*
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Interleukins / blood
  • Lymphocyte Activation
  • Lymphocytes / drug effects*
  • Lymphocytes / immunology
  • Lymphocytes / physiology
  • Medroxyprogesterone Acetate / pharmacology*
  • Neoplasms / blood
  • Neoplasms / immunology
  • Neoplasms / physiopathology*
  • Receptors, Interleukin-2 / biosynthesis
  • Serotonin / blood*
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / biosynthesis
  • Vomiting / blood*
  • Vomiting / etiology
  • Vomiting / immunology

Substances

  • Antigens, CD
  • Cytokines
  • Interleukins
  • Receptors, Interleukin-2
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
  • Serotonin
  • Medroxyprogesterone Acetate