introduction: feverfew (tanacetum parthenium) (t.p.) is widely used in folk medicine to treat many diseases. we reported the analgesic effect of t.p. flower and leaf previously. present study is designed to find the mechanism underlying the anti-nociceptive effect of the aqueous extract of t.p. flower. method: based on our previous study, the dose 50 mg/kg i.p. of the t.p. aqueous extract had a...

s | 31 1 Eskisehir Osmangazi University Medical School, Department of Pharmacology 2 Eskisehir Osmangazi University Medical School, Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation Abstract Objective: Curcumin, an active substance of the plant Curcuma longa, was reported to exhibit antiinflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer, antimicrobial ve antilipidemic features. The aim of this study is to inves...

Possible central serotonergic and histaminergic modulation of acute peripheral inflammation was investigated in rats, adopting the formaldehyde-induced acute pedal inflammation as an experimental model. Intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of central inhibitory neurotransmitter, serotonin and its precursor, 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) attenuated the oedema volume and exudate protein con...

bone densitometry, bone marrow biopsy) were normal. The patient was therefore diagnosed with cutaneous mastocytosis of telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans type and cold urticaria. At the time of writing, the patient was receiving cyproheptadine 4 mg/8 h, which partially controlled the outbreaks. Wheals continued to appear upon cold exposure, but were less severe and of shorter duration. ...