Free radical scavenging activity of the Japanese herbal medicine Toki-Shakuyaku-San (TJ-23) and its effect on superoxide dismutase activity, lipid peroxides, glutamate, and monoamine metabolites in aged rat brain

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 909-914

  Ueda, Y ^a,b   Komatsu, M ^a   Hiramatsu, M ^a  

^a Yamagata Technopolis Foundation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Free radicals; Monoamines; Superoxide dismutase (SOD); Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS); Toki shakuyaku san (TJ 23)

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; FREE RADICAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIPID PEROXIDE; MONOAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SHOSAIKOTO GO KEISHIKASHAKUYAKUTO; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TOKISHAKUYAKU SAN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MONOAMINE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; AGING; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BEPRIDIL; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; FREE RADICALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HUMANS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIPID PEROXIDES; METHOXYHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCOL; MICE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PICRATES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; SEROTONIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029853553     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02532340     Document Type: Article

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