Evidence that total extract of hypericum perforatum affects exploratory behavior and exerts anxiolytic effects in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 627-633

  Vandenbogaerde, A ^a   Zanoli, P ^b   Puia, G ^b   Truzzi, C ^b   Kamuhabwa, A ^a   De Witte, P ^a   Merlevede, W ^a   Baraldi, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiolytic effect; GABA benzodiazepine receptor; Glutamate receptor; Hypericin; Hypericum; Locomotor behavior; Protohypericin; Pseudohypericin

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUMAZENIL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; HYPERICIN; HYPERICUM EXTRACT; PSEUDOHYPERICIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FLUMAZENIL; GABA MODULATORS; HYPERICUM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERYLENE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

HYPERICUM; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM;

EID: 0034124391     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(99)00233-6     Document Type: Article

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