Antidepressant-like effects of liquiritin and isoliquiritin from Glycyrrhiza uralensis in the forced swimming test and tail suspension test in mice

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1179-1184

  Wang, Weixing ^a   Hu, Xinying ^a   Zhao, Zhiyu ^b   Liu, Peng ^a   Hu, Yuchi ^c   Zhou, Jianping ^c   Zhou, Dongfeng ^b   Wang, Zhibin ^c   Guo, Dean ^a   Guo, Hongzhu ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE FOR DRUG CONTROL   (China)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Forced swimming test; Isoliquiritin; Liquiritin; Neuro transmitters; Tail suspension test

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DOPAMINE; FLAVONE; FLUOXETINE; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS EXTRACT; ISOLIQUIRITIN; LIQUIRITIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHALCONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLAVANONES; GLUCOSIDES; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SWIMMING;

EID: 49849099819     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2007.12.021     Document Type: Article

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