Anti-TNF-α antibody reduces pain-behavioral changes induced by epidural application of nucleus pulposus in a rat model depending on the timing of administration

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-416

  Sasaki, Nobuhisa ^a   Kikuchi, Shin Ichi ^a   Konno, Shin Ichi ^a   Sekiguchi, Miho ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti tumor necrosis factor antibody; Cytokine; Disc herniation; Experimental model; Rat; Sciatica; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NERVE ROOT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL PAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33847019911     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000255097.18246.bc     Document Type: Article

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