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Aug 2026
Etoricoxib–Betamethasone Combination Attenuates Inflammatory Nociception and Edema in Adjuvant-Induced Arthritis via Cytokine and Macrophage Axis Modulation
Background/Objectives: Acute inflammatory episodes demand rapid symptom control while limiting systemic exposure. We assessed whether co-therapy with the selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor etoricoxib and the corticosteroid betamethasone provides antinociceptive and anti-edema activity in a rat model with comp...
J. Pérez-Urizar, I. Torres-Roque, V. Rangel-Ramírez et al.
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