St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) counteracts deleterious effects of the chronic restraint stress on recall in rats

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-138

  Trofimiuk, Emil ^a   Walesiuk, Anna ^a   Braszko, Jan J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conditioned behavior; Corticosterone; Hypericum perforatum; Learning and memory; Passive avoidance; Rats; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERICUM; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYTOTHERAPY; POWDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS;

EID: 33746437944     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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