Antidepressant-like effects of the traditional Chinese medicine kami-shoyo-san in rats

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 401-406

  Park, Sung Woo ^a   Kim, Young Koung ^a   Lee, Jung Goo ^b   Kim, Sun Hee ^a   Kim, Jae Min ^c   Yoon, Jin Sang ^c   Park, Yong Ki ^d   Lee, Yong Kyu ^e   Kim, Young Hoon ^a,f  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

^b Dong Suh Mental Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^d Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^e Dongseo University   (South Korea)

^f Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Forced swimming test; Immobilization stress; Kami shoyo san; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANGELICA GIGAS EXTRACT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATRACTYLODES EXTRACT; BUPLEURUM ROOT; GINGER EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; HOELEN EXTRACT; IMIPRAMINE; KAMI SHOYO SAN; LIRIOPIS TUBER EXTRACT; MACROCEPHALAE EXTRACT; MENTHAE FOLIUM EXTRACT; PAEONIA RADIX; RHUBARB EXTRACT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 34347375176     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01676.x     Document Type: Article

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