Effect of dehydrocostus lactone and costunolide from Saussurea root on the central nervous system in mice

Phytomedicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-153

  Okugawa, H ^a   Ueda, R ^a   Matsumoto, K ^a   Kawanishi, K ^b   Kato, A ^b  

^a Kobe Pharmaceutical University   (Japan)

^b KOBE PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Costunolide; Dehydrocostus lactone; Hypothermia; Locomotor activity; Monoamines and their metabolites; Neuroleptics; Saussurea lappa; Saussurea root; Sleeping time

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; SAUSSUREA; SAUSSUREA LAPPA;

EID: 0000222782     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-7113(96)80028-6     Document Type: Article

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