Repetitive treatment with diluted bee venom attenuates the induction of below-level neuropathic pain behaviors in a rat spinal cord injury model

Toxins

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2571-2585

  Kang, Suk Yun ^a   Roh, Dae Hyun ^b   Choi, Jung Wan ^a   Ryu, Yeonhee ^a   Lee, Jang Hern ^c  

^a Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Bee venom; Glia; Mechanical allodynia; Spinal cord injury; Thermal hyperalgesia

Indexed keywords

BEE VENOM; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IONIZED CALCIUM BINDING ADAPTOR MOLECULE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; APITHERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTION; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAW WITHDRAWAL LATENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GLIA; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURALGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

APOIDEA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURALGIA; NEUROGLIA; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84937597978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins7072571     Document Type: Article

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