Carvacrol attenuates mechanical hypernociception and inflammatory response

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 385, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-263

  Guimarães, Adriana G ^a   Xavier, Maria A ^a   De Santana, Marília T ^a   Camargo, Enilton A ^a   Santos, Cliomar A ^a   Brito, Fabíola A ^b   Barreto, Emiliano O ^b   Cavalcanti, Sócrates C H ^a   Antoniolli, Ângelo R ^a   Oliveira, Rita C M ^c   Quintans Júnior, Lucindo J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carvacrol; Inflammation; Mechanical hypernociception; Monoterpene; TNF

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARRAGEENAN; CARVACROL; DOPAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TERPENE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LAVAGE; LEUKOCYTE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAW EDEMA; PLEURISY;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARRAGEENAN; CELL SURVIVAL; DINOPROSTONE; DOPAMINE; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MONOTERPENES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE; PAIN; PLEURISY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84862853078     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: 14321912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-011-0715-x     Document Type: Article

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