Central effects of citral, myrcene and limonene, constituents of essential oil chemotypes from Lippia alba (mill.) N.E. Brown

Phytomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 709-714

  Do Vale, T Gurgel ^a   Furtado, E Couto ^a   Santos, J G ^a   Viana, G S B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Central effects; Citral myrcene; D limonene; Lippia alba

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CITRAL; LIMONENE; LIPPIA ALBA EXTRACT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; MYRCENE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; GROOMING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME;

ANIMALIA; LIPPIA ALBA;

EID: 0036972430     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/094471102321621304     Document Type: Article

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