Curcumin exerts antinociceptive effects by inhibiting the activation of astrocytes in spinal dorsal horn and the intracellular extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling pathway in rat model of chronic constriction injury

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1125-1131

  Ji, Feng Tao ^a,b   Liang, Jiang Jun ^b   Liu, Ling ^b   Cao, Ming Hui ^b   Li, Feng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Curcumin; Extracellular signal regulated kinase; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BEHAVIOR; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CURCUMIN; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NEURALGIA; PHOSPHORYLATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84876940937     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.20122095     Document Type: Article

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