β-Endorphin, Met-enkephalin and corresponding opioid receptors within synovium of patients with joint trauma, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 871-879

  Mousa, Shaaban A ^a   Straub, Rainer H ^b   Schäfer, Michael ^a   Stein, Christoph ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL MARKER; CYCLOSPORIN A; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; LEFLUNOMIDE; METENKEPHALIN; METHOTREXATE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PREDNISOLONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; JOINT INJURY; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; NERVE FIBER; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BETA-ENDORPHIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENKEPHALIN, METHIONINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JOINTS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 34347263724     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.067066     Document Type: Article

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