Peripheral sensory and sympathetic nerves regulated vascular ICAM-1 and selectin expression through neuropeptide release, demonstrating neural-vascular inflammation control relevant to atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease.
Key findingPeripheral sensory and sympathetic nerves regulated vascular ICAM-1 and selectin expression through neuropeptide release, demonstrating neural-vascula
What the researchers found
Peripheral sensory and sympathetic nerves regulated vascular ICAM-1 and selectin expression through neuropeptide release, demonstrating neural-vascular inflammation control relevant to atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease.
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Relevant for peptide research.
How the study worked
research study.
What this study cannot tell us
See abstract.
How to read the evidence
emerging evidence.
When this study was published
Published in 2010.
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Advances peptide research.
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- Further research needed.
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Involvement of the peripheral sensory and sympathetic nervous system in the vascular endothelial expression of ICAM-1 and the recruitment of opioid-containing immune cells to inhibit inflammatory pain.
Brain, behavior, and immunity, 24(8), 1310-23
Citation
Mousa, Shaaban A; Shaqura, Mohammed; Brendl, Ute; Al-Khrasani, Mahmoud; Fürst, Susanna; Schäfer, Michael. (2010). Involvement of the peripheral sensory and sympathetic nervous system in the vascular endothelial expression of ICAM-1 and the recruitment of opioid-containing immune cells to inhibit inflammatory pain.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 24(8), 1310-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2010.06.008