Triptolide prevents and attenuates neuropathic pain via inhibiting central immune response

Pain Physician

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Wei ^a   Mei, Xiao Peng ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Tang, Jun ^a   Li, Jin Lian ^a   Wu, Sheng Xi ^a   Xu, Li Xian ^a   Li, Yun Qing ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; MAPK; Microglia; Neuropathic pain; Spinal dorsal horn; Triptolide

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TRIPTOLIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL NERVE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DITERPENES; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURALGIA; PHENANTHRENES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84869771192     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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