Extract from Acanthopanax senticosus Harms (Siberian ginseng) activates NTS and SON/PVN in the rat brain

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2476-2480

  Soya, Hideaki ^a   Deocaris, Custer C ^a   Yamaguchi, Kaoru ^a   Ohiwa, Nao ^b   Saito, Tsuyoshi ^c   Nishijima, Takeshi ^a   Kato, Morimasa ^d   Tateoka, Masaru ^a   Matsui, Takashi ^a   Okamoto, Masahiro ^a   Fujikawa, Takahiko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Shizuoka University of Welfare   (Japan)

^d Yonezawa Women's Junior College of Yamagata Prefecture   (Japan)

^e MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti stress effects; Hypothalamus; Medulla oblongata; Neuronal activation; Siberian ginseng (Acanthopanax senticosus Harms)

Indexed keywords

ANTI-STRESS EFFECTS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONAL ACTIVATION; RAT BRAIN; SIBERIAN GINSENG; SIBERIAN GINSENG (ACANTHOPANAX SENTICOSUS HARMS); STEM BARK; STRESS RESPONSES;

FOOD ADDITIVES;

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ELEUTHEROCOCCUS SENTICOSUS; RATTUS;

EID: 52649163022     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.80209     Document Type: Article

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