Reduction of sensory responses to passive movements of inflamed knee joints by hylan, a hyaluronan derivative

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-9

  Pozo, Miguel A ^a,c   Balazs, Endre A ^b   Belmonte, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b Matrix Biology Institute   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Articular pain; Human; Joint nociceptors; Perireceptor events

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; HYALURONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYLAN; KAOLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE; KNEE ARTHRITIS; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISCOELASTICITY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; CARRAGEENAN; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HYALURONIC ACID; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; JOINTS; KAOLIN; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE FIBERS; NOCICEPTORS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0030875603     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005742     Document Type: Review

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