Protective effect of melatonin against the inflammatory response elicited by crude venom from isolated nematocysts of Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa)

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-69

  Marino, Angela ^b   Di Paola, Rosanna ^c   Crisafulli, Concetta ^a   Mazzon, Emanuela ^c   Morabito, Rossana ^b   Paterniti, Irene ^a   Galuppo, Maria ^a   Genovese, Tiziana ^a   La Spada, Giuseppina ^b   Cuzzocrea, Salvatore ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Inflammation; Melatonin; NF B; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress; Pelagia noctiluca

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; COELENTERATE VENOM; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MELATONIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PELAGIA NOCTILUCA; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CHYMASES; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; EDEMA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; I-KAPPA B PROTEINS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MELATONIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PEROXIDASE; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCYPHOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRYPTASES;

EID: 67649939036     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: 1600079X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-079X.2009.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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