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Abstracts of the 4th Mistletoe Symposium, Mistletoe in Tumour Therapy. Basic Research and Medicinal Use, 8-10 November 2007.

Suppressive effect of a standardized mistletoe extract on the expression of activatory NK receptors and function of human NK cells.

Intranasal immunization with influenza virus and Korean mistletoe lectin C (KML-C) induces heterosubtypic immunity in mice.

Methodological artifacts in the assessment for (anti-) proliferative activities of mistletoe extracts.

A lectin from Chinese mistletoe increases gammadelta T cell-mediated cytotoxicity through induction of caspase-dependent apoptosis.

Response to subcutaneous therapy with mistletoe in recurrent multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Complementary cancer therapy: a systematic review of prospective clinical trials on anthroposophic mistletoe extracts.

'Soft medicine' is not always soft: the original sin of German drug legislation.

[Obtaining and characterization of the B-chains of mistletoe toxic lectins].

Mistletoe in tumour therapy. Abstracts of the 4th Mistletoe Symposium, 8-10 November 2007, Nonnweiler-Otzenhausen, Germany.

Cytotoxic activity and absence of tumor growth stimulation of standardized mistletoe extracts in human tumor models in vitro.

Subcutaneous inflammation mimicking metastatic malignancy induced by injection of mistletoe extract.

Mistletoe as a treatment for cancer.

Mistletoe lectin (Viscum album coloratum) modulates proliferation and cytokine expressions in murine splenocytes.

Prospective controlled cohort studies on long-term therapy of breast cancer patients with a mistletoe preparation (Iscador).

AB-type lectin (toxin/agglutinin) from mistletoe: differences in affinity of the two galactoside-binding Trp/Tyr-sites and regulation of their functionality by monomer/dimer equilibrium.

Immunologic effector mechanisms of a standardized mistletoe extract on the function of human monocytes and lymphocytes in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo.

Contrasting cascades: insectivorous birds increase pine but not parasitic mistletoe growth.

Antifungal effects and mechanism of action of viscotoxin A3.

Intratumoral application of standardized mistletoe extracts down regulates tumor weight via decreased cell proliferation, increased apoptosis and necrosis in a murine model.