The use of statins in postoperative adhesion prevention

MeSH terms

• Animals
• Cells, Cultured
• Disease Models, Animal
• Epithelium / drug effects
• Epithelium / metabolism
• Epithelium / pathology
• Fibrinolysis / drug effects
• Humans
• Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / therapeutic use*
• Laparotomy / adverse effects*
• Lovastatin / therapeutic use*
• Peritoneum / drug effects*
• Peritoneum / metabolism
• Peritoneum / pathology
• Postoperative Complications / pathology
• Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
• Rats
• Tissue Adhesions / prevention & control
• Tissue Plasminogen Activator / drug effects
• Tissue Plasminogen Activator / genetics
• Tissue Plasminogen Activator / metabolism