Different changes in concentrations of monoamines and their metabolites and amino acids in various brain regions by the herbal medicine/Toki- Shakuyaku-San between female and male senescence-accelerated mice (SAMP8)

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 825-831

  Komatsu, Makiko ^a   Ueda, Yuto ^b   Hiramatsu, Midori ^a  

^a Yamagata Technopolis Foundation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Monoamine; Oki Shakuyaku San amino acids; Senescence accelerated mice (SAMPS)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; MONOAMINE; TOKISHAKUYAKU SAN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTROGEN RELEASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE;

AGING; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 0033034489     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020945611673     Document Type: Article

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