Yokukansan improves mechanical allodynia through the regulation of interleukin-6 expression in the spinal cord in mice with neuropathic pain

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ebisawa, Shigeru ^a   Andoh, Tsugunobu ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Kuraishi, Yasushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOKUKANSAN EXTRACT;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATRACTYLODIS LANCEAE RHIZOMA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GLYCYRRHIZA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 84926384506     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/870687     Document Type: Article

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