Effects of asiatic acid on passive and active avoidance task in male Spraque-Dawley rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-209

  Nasir, M N ^a,b   Habsah, M ^c   Zamzuri, I ^a   Rammes, G ^d,e   Hasnan, J ^a   Abdullah, J ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Asiatic acid; Blood pressure; Passive avoidance

Indexed keywords

ASIATIC ACID; BACLOFEN; SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTIVE AVOIDANCE; ACUTE DRUG ADMINISTRATION; AMNESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CENTELLA ASIATICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BACLOFEN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CENTELLA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PENTACYCLIC TRITERPENES; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCOPOLAMINE;

CENTELLA ASIATICA; RATTUS;

EID: 79952696130     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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