Anxiolytic-like effects of human amniotic fluid and its fatty acids in wistar rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 655-662

  Contreras, Carlos M ^a,b   Rodríguez Landa, Juan Francisco ^b   Gutiérrez García, Ana G ^b,c   Mendoza López, M Remedios ^c   García Ríos, Rosa Isela ^b   Cueto Escobedo, Jonathan ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^b Instituto de Neuroetología UV   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

anxiety; anxiolytic; defensive burying test; elevated plus maze; fatty acids; human amniotic fluid; rat

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; ELAIDIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; LAURIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; PROGESTERONE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; STEARIC ACID;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETER; MAZE TEST; MICROPARTICLE ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIAZEPAM; DIESTRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EMOTIONS; ESTRADIOL; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROGESTERONE; RATS;

EID: 80052936696     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32834aff3d     Document Type: Article

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