Bacopa monniera ameliorates amnesic effects of diazepam qualifying behavioral-molecular partitioning

Neuroscience

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 476-484

  Saraf, M K ^a   Prabhakar, S ^a   Pandhi, P ^a   Anand, A ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

amnesia; Bacopa monniera; behavioral molecular; benzodiazepine; diazepam; water maze

Indexed keywords

BACOPA MONNIERI EXTRACT; CALMODULIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DIAZEPAM; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BACOPA MONNIERI; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCREENING; UPREGULATION;

AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BACOPA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALMODULIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DIAZEPAM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS;

EID: 49349118051     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.05.043     Document Type: Article

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