Psychoimmunological effects of dioscorea in ovariectomized rats: Role of anxiety level

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ho, Ying Jui ^a   Wang, Ching Fu ^a   Hsu, Wen Yu ^a   Tseng, Ting ^a   Hsu, Cheng Chin ^a   Kao, Mei Ding ^b   Tsai, Yuan Feen ^c  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; DIOSCOREA EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE LOCATION; MAZE TEST; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SCREENING TEST; SHAM FEEDING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 34548588473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-6-21     Document Type: Article

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