Title : Cyclooxygenase-2 is induced in brain blood vessels during fever evoked by peripheral or central administration of tumor necrosis factor.

Pub. Date : 1998 May

PMID : 9602052






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1 These results suggest that the brain blood vessels are the major sites where TNF-alpha enhances PG biosynthesis after peripheral as well as after central injection, and provides further evidence supporting the hypothesis that COX-2 induced in the brain blood vessels is involved in fever. Prostaglandins tumor necrosis factor Rattus norvegicus