Kamikihi-to, a Kampo medicine, ameliorates impairment of spatial memory in rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-129

  Egashira, Nobuaki ^a   Manome, Naomi ^a   Kurauchi, Kouji ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshiaki ^b   Iwasaki, Katsunori ^a   Mishima, Kenichi ^a   Shoyama, Yukihiro ^c   Fujiwara, Michihiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kyushu Women's Junior College   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

9 tetrahydrocannabinol; Kamikihi to; Kampo medicine; Oxotremorine; Scopoiamine; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; KAMIKIHI TO; OXOTREMORINE; PLANT EXTRACT; SCOPOLAMINE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TREMOR;

ANIMALS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OXOTREMORINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCOPOLAMINE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; TREMOR;

RATTUS;

EID: 33847002012     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2034     Document Type: Article

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