Dexamethasone administered into organum vasculosum laminae terminalis of rabbits induced antipyresis via inhibiting nitric oxide pathway in situ

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-56

  Lin, M T ^a   Lin, J H ^b   Yang, Y L ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antipyresis; Dexamethasone; Fever; Lipopolysaccharide; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DEXAMETHASONE; ENZYME INDUCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RABBITS;

EID: 0031564826     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00463-1     Document Type: Article

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