Anti-depression effects of Danggui-Shaoyao-San, a fixed combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, on depression model in mice and rats

Phytomedicine

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1130-1136

  Xu, Fan ^a,b,c   Peng, Daiyin ^b,c   Tao, Chunlei ^b,c   Yin, Dengke ^b,c   Kou, Junping ^a   Zhu, Danni ^a   Yu, Boyang ^a  

^a CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Chinese Medicine Research and Development   (China)

^c ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

A fixed combination; Anti depression; Arginine vasopressin; Danggui Shaoyao San

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ARGIPRESSIN; DANGGUI SHAOYAO SAN; FLUOXETINE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGELICA SINENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDEPRESSION ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGUSTICUM CHUANXIONG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAEONIA LACTIFLORA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PORIA COCOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS; SUGAR INTAKE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PITUITARY GLAND; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SWIMMING;

DANGGUI; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 80053899040     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: 1618095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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