Etifoxine stimulates allopregnanolone synthesis in the spinal cord to produce analgesia in experimental mononeuropathy

European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom)

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 258-268

  Aouad, M ^a   Petit Demouliere N ^a   Goumon, Y ^a   Poisbeau, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 ALPHA REDUCED NEUROSTEROID; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 5 ALPHA OXIDOREDUCTASE; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; ETIFOXINE; FINASTERIDE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NEUROSTEROID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MONONEUROPATHIES; NEURALGIA; OXAZINES; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84896693507     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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