Peripheral nerve injury downregulates connexin43(Cx43)expression in spinal astrocytes.Therefore,restoration of spinal astrocyte Cx43 expression to normal levels could lead to the reduction of nerve injury-induced pain...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81130067 and 81202936).
Aim: Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) isozymes are involved in different functions, depending on their patterns of distribution in the brain The PDE4 subtypes are distributed in different inflammatory cells, and appear t...
Damage from spinal cord injury occurs in two phases-the trauma of the initial mechanical insult and a secondary injury to nervous tissue spared by the primary insult.Apart from damage sustained as a result of direct t...
Supported by the grant of Sino-France Cooperation of INSERM and SSMU.
Objective To investigate the effects of novel selective phosphodiesterase4 (PDE4) inhibitors,Ariflo and SB242126A, on the endothelin-1 (ET-1) - induced contractility occurring in nonpregnant human myome-trium specimen...