Effects of repeated administered ghrelin on chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 226-230

  Guneli, Ensari ^a   Onal, Aytul ^b   Ates, Mehmet ^a   Bagriyanik, Hüsnü Alper ^a   Resmi, Halil ^a   Orhan, Cahide Elif ^b   Kolatan, Hatice Efsun ^a   Gumustekin, Mukaddes ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ghrelin; Neuropathic pain; Proinflammatory cytokines; Rats

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ANALGESIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; METABOLISM; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CYTOKINES; GHRELIN; HYPERALGESIA; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MALE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 77954145862     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.066     Document Type: Article

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