Green tea pain modulating effect in sciatic nerve chronic constriction injury rat model

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 41-47

  Renno, Waleed M ^a   Saleh, Farid ^a   Klepacek, Ivo ^a   Al Khaledi, Ghanim ^a   Ismael, Hussam ^a   Asfar, Sami ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Behavioural tests; Green tea; Rat; Sicatic nerve injury

Indexed keywords

GREEN TEA EXTRACT;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HYPERALGESIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCIATIC NERVE; TEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALGESIA; ANIMALS; CONSTRICTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOOT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SENSATION; TEA; TOES;

EID: 33746032582     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150600576705     Document Type: Article

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