Evidence that the ginkgo biloba extract, EGb 761, neither accelerates nor enhances the rapid compensation of the static symptoms of unilateral vestibular deafferentation in guinea pig

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-118

  Schlatter, Melanie ^a   Kerr, DeWana R ^a   Smith, Paul F ^a   Darlington, Cynthia L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

EGb 761; Ginkgo biloba; Vestibular compensation

Indexed keywords

GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEAD TILTING; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NYSTAGMUS;

EID: 13044258899     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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