Antidepressant-like activity of a Kampo (Japanese herbal) medicine, Koso-san (Xiang-Su-San), and its mode of action via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

Phytomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 658-667

  Ito, N ^a   Nagai, T ^a   Yabe, T ^a   Nunome, S ^a   Hanawa, T ^a   Yamada, H ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Chronic mild stress; Depression like model mice; Forced swimming test; HPA axis; Koso san; Xiang Su San

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DESIPRAMINE; DIAZEPAM; FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HORIZON; KAMPO; KOSO SAN; MESSENGER RNA; MILNACIPRAN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HERBAL MEDICINE; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DIAZEPAM; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MICE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750503215     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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