Hyperforin enhances the extracellular concentrations of catecholamines, serotonin and glutamate in the rat locus coeruleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-202

  Kaehler, Stefan T ^a   Sinner, Catrin ^a   Chatterjee, Shyam Sunder ^a   Philippu, Athineos ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxyindoleacetic acid; Aspartate; Dopamine, Noradrenaline; Glutamate; Hyperforin; Push pull superfusion; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPERFORIN; MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SERINE; SEROTONIN; TAURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; CATECHOLAMINES; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; KINETICS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHLOROGLUCINOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; TERPENES;

EID: 0033548639     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00087-7     Document Type: Article

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