Role of antifibrotic cytokine interferon-γ in the prevention of postlaminectomy peridural fibrosis in rats

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1351-1357

  Emmez, Hakan ^a,b   Kardes, Ozgur ^a   Dogulu, Fikret ^a   Kurt, Gokhan ^a   Memis, Leyla ^a   Baykaner, M Kemali ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Failed back syndrome; Interferon ; Peridural fibrosis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; SILICONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE REGENERATION; CATHETER; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROGENESIS; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LAMINECTOMY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIDURAL FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; TISSUE REPAIR; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DURA MATER; FIBROSIS; INTERFERON-GAMMA, RECOMBINANT; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 56849121592     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000333307.02802.04     Document Type: Article

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