Bee venom injection produces a peripheral anti-inflammatory effect by activation of a nitric oxide-dependent spinocoeruleus pathway

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 430, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-168

  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   Lee, Jang Hern ^c  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bee venom; Inflammation; Locus coeruleus; Neuroimmune modulation; Nitric oxide synthase; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

1H 1,2,4 OXADIAZOLO[4,3 A]QUINOXALIN 1 ONE; 7 NITROINDAZOLE; BEE VENOM; HEMOGLOBIN; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; ZYMOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BEE VENOMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INDAZOLES; LEUKOCYTES; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPINAL CORD; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 37549020056     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.10.035     Document Type: Article

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