Suppression of alcohol intake after administration of the Chinese herbal medicine, NPI-028, and its derivatives

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-227

  Overstreet, David H ^a,d   Lee, Yue Wei ^b   Rezvani, Amir H ^a   Pei, Yue Hu ^c   Criswell, Hugh E ^a   Janowsky, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c Natural Pharmacia International   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Intake; Alcohol preferring Rats; Chinese Herbal Derivatives; Fawn Hooded Rats; NPI 028 NPI 031 NPI 031G

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; ISOFLAVONE; NPI 028; PLANT EXTRACT; PUERARIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG ANALYSIS; DRUG DOSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG THERAPY; HERBAL MEDICINE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARMACEUTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ETHANOL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; ISOFLAVONES; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029981979     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb01633.x     Document Type: Article

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