Peripheral bee venom's anti-inflammatory effect involves activation of the coeruleospinal pathway and sympathetic preganglionic neurons

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-59

  Yoon, Seo Yeon ^a   Kwon, Young Bae ^b   Kim, Hyun Woo ^c   Roh, Dae Hyun ^c   Seo, Hyoung Sig ^c   Han, Ho Jae ^a   Lee, Hye Jung ^d   Beitz, Alvin J ^e   Hwang, Sun Wook ^f   Lee, Jang Hern ^c  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

2 Adrenoceptor; Adrenal medulla; Bee venom; Inflammation; locus coeruleus; Sympathetic preganglionic neurons

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BEE VENOM; IDAZOXAN; OXIDOPAMINE; PROTEIN FOS; ZYMOSAN;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HINDLIMB; INFLAMMATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BEE VENOMS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; OXIDOPAMINE; SPINAL CORD; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 34548040151     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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