Protective effects of the calcium-channel blocker flunarizine on crush injury of sciatic nerves in a rat model

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 530-536

  Su, Jian Hua ^a   Chen, Yu Fang ^b   Tang, Jin Rong ^a   Wu, Le ^a   Zhang, Ping ^c   Yu, Long Bin ^a   Niu, Qi ^a   Xiao, Hang ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China   (China)

^c THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

c fos; crush injury; dorsal root ganglion; flunarizine; nerve conduction velocity; sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

FLUNARIZINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPINAL GANGLION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLUNARIZINE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956390993     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.68665     Document Type: Article

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