A possible role to nitric oxide in the anti-inflammatory effects of amitriptyline

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 578-585

  Vismari, Luciana ^a   Alves, Glaucie J ^a   Muscará, Marcelo N ^a   Palermo Neto, João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Inflammation; Neuroimmunomodulation; Nitrate; Paw edema

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ARGININE; CARRAGEENAN; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; L SELECTIN; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PERITONITIS; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EDEMA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PERITONITIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84863789860     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: 15322513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08923973.2011.638305     Document Type: Article

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