Effect of Methylprednisolone on Neuropathic Pain and Spinal Glial Activation in Rats

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1249-1257

  Takeda, Kenji ^a   Sawamura, Shigehito ^b   Sekiyama, Hiroshi ^c   Tamai, Hisayoshi ^c   Hanaoka, Kazuo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Showa General Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GLIA; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL NERVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROGLIA; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 2142768085     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200405000-00029     Document Type: Article

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