Effects of Toki-shakuyaku-san on electric footshock stress in ovariectomized mice

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-46

  Iizuka, Susumu ^a   Ishige, Atsushi ^a   Komatsu, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsumiya, Teruhiko ^b   Inazu, Masato ^b   Takeda, Hiroshi ^b  

^a TSUMURA AND CO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Noradrenaline turnover; Ovariectomy; Sodium pentobarbital induced sleep; Toki shakuyaku san; Uterine weight

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; KAMPO; PENTOBARBITAL; PLANT EXTRACT; TOKISHAKUYAKU SAN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; MENOPAUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PENTOBARBITAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SLEEP; STRESS;

EID: 0031967662     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.1998.20.1.485630     Document Type: Article

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