Effect of Choto-san, a Kampo medicine, on impairment of passive avoidance performance in mice

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-235

  Yuzurihara, Mitsutoshi ^a   Goto, Kazuhiro ^a   Sugimoto, Akira ^a   Ishige, Atsushi ^a   Komatsu, Yasuhiro ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^b   Terasawa, Katsutoshi ^b  

^a TSUMURA AND CO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular dementia; Choto san; Passive avoidance task; Serotonergic system; Serotonin(1A) receptor

Indexed keywords

1 (2 METHOXYPHENYL) 4 (4 PHTHALIMIDOBUTYL)PIPERAZINE; CHOTOSAN; KAMPO; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A ANTAGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PIPERAZINES; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032893005     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199905)13:3<233::AID-PTR416>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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