A combination of peppermint oil and caraway oil attenuates the post-inflammatory visceral hyperalgesia in a rat model

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-160

  Adam, Birgit ^a   Liebregts, Tobias ^a   Best, Jan ^b   Bechmann, Lars ^b   Lackner, Carolin ^c   Neumann, Jens ^d   Koehler, Stephan ^e   Holtmann, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e DR WILLMAR SCHWABE GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caraway oil; Colorectal distension; Irritable bowel syndrome; Peppermint oil; Post inflammatory; Visceral hyperalgesia

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARAWAY OIL; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PEPPERMINT OIL; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRINITROBENZENESULFONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARAWAY; COLON MUCOSA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; INTESTINE DISTENSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTHA PIPERITA; MUSCLE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; ANIMALS; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOL; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; OILS, VOLATILE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PLANT OILS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRINITROBENZENESULFONIC ACID; VISCERA;

EID: 32644489659     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520500206442     Document Type: Article

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