Therapeutic application of anti-arthritis, pain-releasing, and anti-cancer effects of bee venom and its constituent compounds

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 246-270

  Son, Dong Ju ^a   Lee, Jae Woong ^a   Lee, Young Hee ^a   Song, Ho Sueb ^b   Lee, Chong Kil ^a   Hong, Jin Tae ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adolapin; Anti arthritis effect; Anti cancer effect; Anti inflammatory effect; Anti nociceptive effect; Apamin; Bee venom; Histamines; Hyaluronidase; Mast cell degranulating peptide; Melittin; Phospholipase A2; Procamines

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ADOLAPIN; ADRENALIN; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AMINE; APAMIN; BEE VENOM; CAPSAICIN; CHELERYTHRINE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE DERIVATIVE; HYALURONIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MAST CELL DEGRANULATING PEPTIDE; MELITTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N [2 (4 BROMOCINNAMYLAMINO)ETHYL] 5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONAMIDE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROCAMINE DERIVATIVE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTHRITIS; BREAST CANCER; DRUG INDICATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 34447312502     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2007.04.004     Document Type: Review

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