Oxytocin decreases carrageenan induced inflammation in rats

Peptides

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1479-1484

  Petersson, Maria ^a,b   Wiberg, Ursula ^a   Lundeberg, Thomas ^a   Uvnäs Moberg, Kerstin ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carrageenan; Dexamethasone; Inflammation; Myeloperoxidase; Nociceptive thresholds; Oxytocin; Oxytocin antagonist; Rat

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MYELOPEROXIDASE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CARRAGEENAN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EDEMA; HINDLIMB; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PEROXIDASE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 0034888815     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(01)00469-7     Document Type: Article

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